On 05/11/2015 10:58 PM, Istimsak Abdulbasir wrote: > > What does XDG mean and what dies it do? > > ... X Desktop Group
Basically this is a freedesktop project which aims to standardize things across the diverse GNU operating systems and desktop environments. There are XDG directories for the user, for the base (where do applications install?), where is the configuration stored for a particular DE, etc.. Here is some stuff about the base directories http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html freedesktop also made the desktop file and menu specifications as well as Mime-types and a few other things (like icon themes, etc..), they are not formal standards, but collections of existing standards and documents related to the X desktop and they promote sharing these standards between desktops (XFCE, LXDE, GNOME, Unity, most likely KDE all use many of these XDG_ variables and you also have at least a few xdg programs installed: xdg-desktop-icon xdg-mime xdg-user-dir xdg-desktop-menu xdg-open xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update xdg-email xdg-screensaver xdg-user-dirs-update xdg-icon-resource xdg-settings It is actually a very cool resource that I have used very extensively the past year. That is why I knew about this stuff :) I actually ran into an issue with PCManFM not displaying icons in the menu://applications because I did not export the XDG menu variable prior to starting my environment. wikipedia has a nice article about the freedesktop project as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedesktop.org -- Regards -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
