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- terminology - What does XDG stand for? - Super User
The XDG Base Directory Specification standardizes best practices for which folders a user-scoped programs may write to What does XDG stand for, what's the story behind the name?
- How can I set which application is launched by xdg-open?
The xdg-mime commands are exactly what I needed! I'm running Manjaro-i3, so I don't have a desktop environment at all (and the GConf and update-alternatives answers above don't apply)
- Where should the XDG_CONFIG_HOME variable be defined?
The XDG specification talks about the XDG_CONFIG_HOME variable, but does not specify where it should be defined Should we define it in etc X11 Xsession, or is it the window manager's config file
- command line - Open Microsoft Edge in Ubuntu - Ask Ubuntu
I run Ubuntu on my Windows laptop, and I only use the Microsoft Edge browser I tried to used the 'xdg-open' to open the desire website, but Microsoft Edge is not listed in the supported browser
- command line - What is XDG_RUNTIME_DIR? - Ask Ubuntu
11 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is an environment variable set in your X Windows context, so that programs can find things You (neo) have set up the graphics context By trying to run evince as root, you have entered the condition where a user (root) is trying to access another user's (neo) display This is regarded as a Bad Thing
- google chrome - What is xdg-open? - Ask Ubuntu
The xdg-open is used to open a url or file in the your preferred program Use xdg-open --manual to learn more xdg-open opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application If a URL is provided the URL will be opened in the user's preferred web browser If a file is provided the file will be opened in the preferred application for files of that type xdg-open supports file, ftp, http and
- How do I change my default browser? - Ask Ubuntu
Incidentally, I needed to do (unset BROWSER; xdg-settings set default-web-browser firefox-esr desktop) (I normally use BROWSER=lynx) because the mere presence of that environment variable made xdg-settings refuse to do its job
- How to set XDG_RUNTIME_DIR - Ask Ubuntu
$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not well set on my computer and this causes upstart to write PID files to my home folder May I know what it should be and where to set it?
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