Re: XDG variables no longer set

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On 26/02/13 22:44, Daniel Micay wrote:
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).

They didn’t exist at all. I had to manually export them or they didn’t exist at login, which is why I wrote that script.


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