I’m a i3 user that has been trying to migrate to sway.
I use it with these environment variables:
export XDG_DATA_HOME="$HOME/.local/share"
export XDG_STATE_HOME="$HOME/.local/var/state"
export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.local/config"
export XDG_CACHE_HOME="$HOME/.local/var/cache"
Which gives me a clean home with only ~/.local
for my dotfiles.
And issue that I’ve noticed that I haven’t been able to fix is that every time that I start sway, hyprland and also the alpha of cosmic is that I get a new ~/.cache
directory created in my home that contains a mesa_shader_cache
directory.
Btw in the middle of writing this post I just ran into another bug, thunar for some reason decided to steal my key presses from the web browser, and even though I had the browser window focused as I have sway configured to change the border color of the window with focus, thunar was like nope wtf.
Thank you all for the help, ended up opening a bug report at sway: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/8191
There is also a dedicated “/etc/environment” , but that is systemwide for all users (not sure if this applies to root too). But that is the first in the chain, in case you want test it. Therefore it does not know any variables like $HOME, only hardcoded values.
Edit: Also maybe there are programs that does not respect XDG and have hardcoded paths to ~/.cache. And I am not sure if ~/ has the same value as XDG.
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Mesa contains the graphics driver in the Kernel. So maybe this is run very early. Theoretically you could do a workaround and remove that directory with each start, but that’s an ugly solution. Does Steam start with your login session? Maybe Proton is creating the cache.
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I have no ideas left. Also explored a little bit web searches about this topic, but couldn’t find anything useful. Sorry, this reply is even less useful.^^
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I know the feeling. Sometimes I have such little things that bugs me for months, sometimes without a resolution. For the reporting stuff, you could just start discussions and ask if its is even related and if you should create an issue. At least if there is a place for.
Now that I think, I just remembered a program that helps with cleaning the home folder: https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja
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