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by senorprogrammer 2947 days ago
Got a good pointer to more details? I don't know anything about that spec.
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See https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-...

The main idea. You read $XDG_* variables, and use them if defined, and use spec defaults if not. It declutters $HOME from dot directories.

I'll take a look, thanks.