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Making XMonad Conform to the XDG Base Directory Specification

By default, XMonad's documentation and most tutorials about installing XMonad and configuring it make use of the ~/.xmonad directory for config files.

Doing this does not conform to the XDG Base Directoy Specification set by freedesktop.org.

However, since version 0.15, XMonad does support the specification, but it requires that the corresponding folders be present.

  1. Config files in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/xmonad. xmonad.hs should be shifted here.
  2. $XDG_DATA_HOME/xmonad be present. This is were XMonad places its built binary (xmonad-x86_64-linux in my case).

Therefore, creating both these directories manually, especially the second one when setting up XMonad is necessary if it is desired that it conform to the guidelines.

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