detail about xfce4-session man page

[Felipe S. Boffo]

hi there,


the xfce4-session man page
tells that the software uses the contents of the ~/.xfce4/session
for starting previously saved sessions.

in my system the ~/.config/xfce4-session directory is used.

since xfce now uses the basedir specification from freedesktop.org
should not that man page be modified? maybe there is more documentation
inconsistency.

thanks.

[Benedikt Meurer]

Post by Felipe S. Boffo
hi there,
the xfce4-session man page
tells that the software uses the contents of the ~/.xfce4/session
for starting previously saved sessions.
in my system the ~/.config/xfce4-session directory is used.

Its ~/.cache/sessions/ and its fixed now, thanks.

Post by Felipe S. Boffo
thanks.

Benedikt

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Post by Benedikt Meurer

Post by Felipe S. Boffo
hi there,
the xfce4-session man page
tells that the software uses the contents of the ~/.xfce4/session
for starting previously saved sessions.
in my system the ~/.config/xfce4-session directory is used.

Its ~/.cache/sessions/ and its fixed now, thanks.

on a related note, is there any reason why it's not in
~/.cache/xfce4/sessions instead? and no, i don't consider "because that's
what it was when i started" to be a valid reason ^_~.

-b

[Benedikt Meurer]

Post by Brian J. Tarricone

Post by Benedikt Meurer
Its ~/.cache/sessions/ and its fixed now, thanks.

on a related note, is there any reason why it's not in
~/.cache/xfce4/sessions instead? and no, i don't consider "because that's
what it was when i started" to be a valid reason ^_~.

Lets say "Because thats what it is". :-)

Ok, just kidding. :-) The reason is simple: Several applications store
session data, and I would really love to see if all those apps would
store the data to ~/.cache/sessions/, so you have _one_ directory with
all session related data, instead of having ~/.cache/xfce4/sessions,
~/.cache/gnome/sessions, ~/.cache/kde/sessions,
~/.cache/<insert-your-app-here>/sessions. Since Xfce is the first
desktop to support the XDG basedir spec, others will hopefully learn a
lesson from it and don't clutter general data (such as session data)
unnecessary (call me a dreamer, but chances are better than 1%, that the
introduction of XDG basedir spec will led to more structured
configuration storage :-).

Benedikt