XFCE configuration data

[Levente]

Again, thanks for all the information. This is useful.

Cheers,
Levente

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 1:14 PM, killermoehre <killermoehre at gmx.net> wrote:

> Am 27.05.2015 um 12:05 schrieb Ralf Mardorf:
> > On Wed, 27 May 2015 11:20:57 +0200, killermoehre wrote:
> >> AFAIK nothing else should writing there on its own.
> >
> > Likely the desktop file was written by me and not by
> > xfce4-settings-manager, however, it's used by xfce4-settings-manager.
>
> Which is right and intended. This was my bad. Pleas apologize for the
> inconvenience.
>
> >> This directories main purpose is to provide overrides/additions for
> >> /usr/share/xfce4/. Due to the XDG standards, there is  strong
> >> connection between the single directories:
> >>
> >>  system default  |     admin override     |    user override
> >> ------------------+------------------------+----------------------
> >> /usr/lib/xfce4   | /etc/xdg/xfce4         | ~/.config/xfce4
> >> /usr/share/xfce4 | /usr/local/share/xfce4 | ~/.local/share/xfce4
>
> To be really specific, there are even more directories. Please consult
> the file system hierarchy standard for more informations.
>
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Btw. I've got two dirs and two files in .local/share/xfce4.
>
> This is also intended. There can be any directory-layout in this dirs.
>
> > $ ls .local/share/xfce4/*
> > .local/share/xfce4/helpers:
> > custom-WebBrowser.desktop
> >
> > .local/share/xfce4/parole:
> > auto-saved-playlist.m3u
> >
> > For sure I didn't write auto-saved-playlist.m3u myself.
>
> It's questionable if you want to save the auto-saved playlist of parole,
> but the place is right for its storage (one could argue that .config
> would be better suited, but for this we would need to discuss if a
> playlist is config or application data).
>
> > _Sum up_:
> >
> > Everything is stored in
> > ~/.config/xfce4/
> > ~/.config/Thunar/
> > ~/.local/share/xfce4/
> >
> > This might be something that was used in the past:
> > ~/.config/xfce4-session
> >
> > Likely dconf or gconf aren't used, even not by xfwm.
>
> Because xfce (and therefor xfwm4) uses xfconf ;) This doesn't mean that
> other applications don't use those backends, like gvfs, gstreamer,
> pulseaudio, or the other GNOME stuff you may use.
>
> > Likely ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini are ignored.
>
> That's wrong. xfce honors this settings. They override the default from
> the current theme.
>
> > Likely ~/.Xresources and ~/.fonts.conf/, resp. ~/.fonts.conf.d/ are
> > ignored too, but perhaps .config/Trolltech.conf is important or wherever
> > qtconfig-qt3 and qtconfig-qt4 store settings. Or does Xfce4 handle e.g.
> > font sizes for Qt apps too?
>
> ~/.Xresources is _not_ ignored, see below. Also xfsettingsd is build
> against fontconfig, so it depends on your /etc/fonts/*.conf if it checks
> for ~/.fonts and such dirs.
> For the QT-part it's important that the Trolltech.conf file has the line
> "style=GTK+", which will tell QT to use the GTK-settings, which are set
> by xfce.
>
> If you read /usr/bin/startxfce4 closely you will see that different
> files will be sourced, some of them could even be user supplied. Those
> files can source other files, too. The default looks for:
> - $HOME/.xserverrc
> - $HOME/.xfce4/xinitrc (deprecated, only for compat)
> - $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/xfce4/xinitrc
> - $HOME/.Xdefaults
> - $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/xfce4/Xft.xrdb
> - $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/xfce4/Xcursor.xrdb
> - $HOME/.Xresources
> - $HOME/.Xmodmap
>
> "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" is either set to a path or defaults to "$HOME/.config".
>
> > Regards,
> > Ralf
>
>
>
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