#! zsh # Initialise each of the XDG vars to their default values if they're unset. : ${XDG_CACHE_HOME:=~/.cache} : ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:=~/.config} : ${XDG_DATA_HOME:=~/.local/share} : ${XDG_STATE_HOME:=~/.local/state} export XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_STATE_HOME # The other four XDG directories are very easy, but XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is # complicated. It kinda needs to be managed by a systemwide supervisor, like # systemd, in order to meet all of the XDG Base Directory specification's # requirements? In particular, the directory is supposed to come into being # when you log in, live as long as you have any active sessions, and be # destroyed when you log out - none of this can easily be done from the shell # environment alone, especially on an operating system like macOS where your # graphical session wasn't spawned from a shell using something like .xinitrc. # # We're going to assume XDG_RUNTIME_DIR will have already be set by a # systemwide supervisor if it can possibly have been. If it hasn't - say, # because we're on macOS - we'll compromise by using TMPDIR. Since TMPDIR has # a different lifetime than XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is supposed to, this is an # imperfect solution, but it's the best we can do. if [[ ! -d $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR ]] && [[ -d $TMPDIR ]]; then export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=${TMPDIR}xdg-$UID mkdir -p $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR chmod 0700 $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR fi # The real zsh config lives in XDG_CONFIG_HOME! ;) : ${ZDOTDIR:=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/zsh} [[ $ZDOTDIR = $HOME ]] && ZDOTDIR=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/zsh source $ZDOTDIR/zshenv.zsh