XDG Base Directory Specification

Waldo Bastian


    
  

Ryan Lortie


    
  

Lennart Poettering


    
  

Version 0.7

24th November 2010


Table of Contents

Introduction
Basics
Environment variables
Referencing this specification

Introduction

Various specifications specify files and file formats. This specification defines where these files should be looked for by defining one or more base directories relative to which files should be located.