Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gdm
This is a wishlist item, filed against gdm 2.30.0-0ubuntu5 in Ubuntu
Lucid.
I use the Xubuntu desktop. XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is set in /etc/X11/Xsession.d
/60xdg_path-on-session (a file provided by gdm) to "/etc/xdg/xdg-
xubuntu:/etc/xdg" (if I haven't set X_D_G myself beforehand).
What I want to do, however, is set it to something like "$HOME/.my-
xdg:/etc/xdg/xdg-xubuntu:/etc/xdg". That is, I want to prepend my own
directory to the variable. (The idea is to start with my preferred
default settings with an empty ~/.config directory, when I'm starting a
brand-new user account. I do this at every new Ubuntu release, and it's
less work to hand-maintain some cut-down config files in ~/.my-xdg/ than
to go through all the GUI widgets necessary to set my desired settings
every six months.)
The problem is that, short of using your own ~/.xsession file, there is
no way to do this. You can't set/tweak X_D_G accordingly in ~/.profile
or ~/.xsessionrc, because those are read before 60xdg_path-on-session.
And you can't change what 60xdg_path-on-session does, unconditionally
adding the /etc/xdg/... directory as the very first element.
This makes it basically infeasible for a user to take advantage of a
very useful aspect of the XDG Base Directory system.
** Affects: gdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Cannot prepend user-defined dir to XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/591492
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