As at Jessie, (audacity=2.0.6-2), the default directory is /var/tmp/audacity-<USERNAME>.
This can't be changed in the environment (e.g. export AUDACITY_TMPDIR=$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR). This can't be changed (for all users) in /etc or /usr (e.g. /usr/share/audacity/audacity.cfg). This can only be fixed in each user's $HOME/.audacity-data/audacity.cfg. Per http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html, please use $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR as the default. Typically XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is auto-managed by systemd-logind, such that it is stored in RAM and has available space equal to 50% of total RAM. The manpage indicates that the temp dir should be "fast"; RAM is *MUCH* faster than a local disk :-) The manpage says it defaults to /var/tmp instead of /tmp so that if the entire OS crashes, the temporary files can be recovered. Since my OS doesn't crash, I don't need to worry about that :-) The relevant code is src/AudacityApp.cpp:1090:AudacityApp::OnInit(). Please let me set a site-wide default of TempDir=$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR! _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
