XDG

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XDG is an abbreviation for the X Desktop Group, now known as freedesktop.org. freedesktop.org creates and maintains specifications and software related to desktop systems.

For information about:

• The XDG Base Directory specification, which describes environment variables such as XDG_RUNTIME_DIR and their default values, refer to the XDG/Base Directories page.

• The xdg-desktop-portal interface, which provides a standard API for things such as file access, opening URIs, and printing, refer to the XDG/xdg-desktop-portal page.

• Command-line programs for managing and using default applications for particular MIME types, such as text/plain, image/gif and audio/mp3, refer to the XDG/Software page.

See also

• XDG/Base Directories — standard directories specified by freedesktop.org (formerly the X Desktop Group)
• XDG/Software — command-line programs for managing and using default applications for particular MIME types
• XDG/xdg-desktop-portal — a frontend to implementations of the xdg-desktop-portal interface.