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====== Software That Doesn't Support XDG======
//And ways around that//

XDG user directories are cool. Dumping your trash in my home directory is not!

===== Software =====

==== Audacity ====

  * Issue: [[https://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2201]]

A fork called [[Tenacity]] now supports XDG directories.

Update: Fixed: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/3088

==== Cargo ====
Rust package manager.

  * Issue: [[github>rust-lang/cargo/issues/1734]]

There are the environment vars ''CARGO_HOME'' and ''RUSTUP_HOME'', as a work-round.

==== Firefox ====
  * Issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259356

==== Foobar2000 ====

==== Godot ====
''~/.godot'' is the default, but can be fixed in the software preferences.

==== Hunspell ====
Sticks it's custom dictionary/ies as a dotfile in home. EG: ''.hunspell_en_AU''.

==== Itch ====
Well this is weird. There's a ''.ych'', which seems to be the actual Electron launcher?, and then everything else is in ''.config/itch'', like game syou download and everything. WEIRD AS HELL.

  * Issue: [[github>itchio/itch/issues/2356]] (newer, 'wontfix')
  * Issue: [[github>itchio/itch/issues/1184]]

==== LMMS ====

==== MPV ====
Dev hates XDG. Defaults to ''~/.mpv'', but if you move that to ''~/.config/mpv'' she'll be right. No support for ''~/.local'' or ''~/.cache''

==== Neverball ====

==== NPM ====

  * Issue: [[github>npm/npm/issues/6675]]
    * Workround in issue: [[github>npm/npm/issues/6675#issuecomment-251049832]]

==== PCManFM ====
Generally it works right, but thumbnails are in ''~/.thumbnails'' instead of ''XDG_CACHE_HOME/thumbnails''

  * Issue: https://sourceforge.net/p/pcmanfm/feature-requests/431/

==== Quod Libet ====

I have everything in ''~/.config/quodlibet'', but that includes stuff that isn't config stuff like [[playlists|playlists]].

  * Issue: [[github>quodlibet/quodlibet/issues/138]]
  * Issue: [[github>quodlibet/quodlibet/issues/2202]] (current)

==== RPG in a Box ====

==== SoulseekQT ====
They don't have an issue tracker, just a Google forum thing :/

==== Steam ====
  * Issue: [[github>ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/1890]]
  * Interesting workaround, but not ideal: [[github>ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/1890#issuecomment-394128930]]

==== Syncterm ====

Defaults to ''~/.syncterm'', but can edit in config.

==== Thunderbird ====
  * Issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735285

==== Vim ====
You can set an environment variable to load your config from wherever you want.

''export VIMINIT=":source ~/.config/vim/vimrc"''

  * https://tlvince.com/vim-respect-xdg

==== Weechat ====
  * Issue: [[github>weechat/weechat/issues/1285]]

You can set an environment variable to load your config from wherever you want.

''export WEECHAT_HOME="~/.config/weechat"''

==== Wine ====
[[Wine]] keeps it's profiles in ''~/.wine'' by default.

You can change this with an environment variable, say: ''export WINEPREFIX=~/.local/share/wine''

===== See Also =====
  * https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
  * https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs/
  * https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory#Support\
  * https://soc.me/standards/defending-home - Wild solution where user makes their home directory read-only.

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