On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Robbie Smith <zoqaeski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For some reason, after my last reboot (a kernel update), none of the XDG > variables[1] (such as $XDG_CONFIG_HOME) are being set, which broke a lot of > my configuration, as I rely on those in scripts. > > I was able to fix it by writing a script[2] to drop in /etc/profile.d/ that > would create those directories and export the variables as required, but > what I want to know is why they broke in the first place. > > Has anyone else experienced this? > > Robbie > > > [1] > http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html#variables > > [2] Like this (taken from /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc) : > #!/bin/sh > # $XDG_CONFIG_HOME defines the base directory relative to which > # user specific configuration files should be stored. If > # $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to > # $HOME/.config should be used. > if test "x$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" = "x" ; then > XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config > export XDG_CONFIG_HOME > fi > [ -d "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" ] || mkdir "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" You can only expect these to be set if the default has been changed. If they're unset, it means anything querying them should fall back to ~/.config (and the other fallbacks).
