On January 28, 2014 12:03:04 PM EST, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: >Option 3: Unset the variables > >This should cause applications to default to locations under ${HOME}.
Only those applications that properly comply with standards :) For instance, glib did not start respecting ${HOME} until version 2.36 if I remember right; before that, unset XDG_* variables would cause g_get_user_cache_dir() etc. to fall back to something under /root/ no matter where ${HOME} pointed. Which is the main reason why gnome2_environment_reset() was created.