XDG

• Cross-Desktop Group

  • used to be a working group under freedesktop.org

    • defined standards for Linux and Unix Desktop/Environments
      • GNOME
      • KDE
      • XFCE

  • defines where applications should store files

    • Configuration/Files
    • Data/Files
    • Cache/Files
    • runtime/Files
    • Desktop/Entry (.desktop launchers / Shortcut)

  • EnvVars that determine the core XDG directories

    • XDG/EnvVar/XDG_CONFIG_HOME has user config files; default ~/.config
    • XDG/EnvVar/XDG_DATA_HOME has user data files; default ~/.local/share
    • XDG/EnvVar/XDG_CACHE_HOME has cache files; default ~/.cache
    • XDG/EnvVar/XDG_RUNTIME_DIR has runtime sockets and IPC