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Export XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_DATA_HOME as well

Bug #1969305 reported by Akbarkhon Variskhanov
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Bug Description

These base directories should also be included to make scripting easier.

Their default values should be set as per XDG base-dir spec, i.e.:

XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config"
XDG_DATA_HOME="$HOME/.local/share"

Tags: focal
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

What file or binary package does this bug report related to?

Also what version of Ubuntu are you using?

Changed in xorg (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Akbarkhon Variskhanov (kbar) wrote :

It's one of the shell scripts in https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/tree/debian/local/Xsession.d, which is then installed to /etc/X11/Xsession.d

The most appropriate would be 60x11-common_xdg_path, where CONFIG and DATA dirs are exported from.

I'm on Xubuntu 20.04 but I checked the devel branch.

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)
Changed in xorg (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
tags: added: focal
Akbarkhon Variskhanov (kbar)
affects: xorg (Ubuntu) → gnome-session (Ubuntu)
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Akbarkhon Variskhanov (kbar) wrote :

After a bit of testing and consideration, I have come to a conclusion that X11 hierarchy is not fit for this purpose since Wayland or pure virtual terminal sessions never get to source those files.

A more suitable destination for such an init file would be /etc/profile.d, which contains system-wide init files for login shells (sourced upon shell invocation). Ideally, this should be standardized across all XDG-compliant systems.

For now, another file should be placed in debian and included in d/gnome-session-common.install for installation at /etc/profile.d

Akbarkhon Variskhanov (kbar)
affects: gnome-session (Ubuntu) → shadow (Ubuntu)
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