On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:38:46 +0100
Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:

> I built xfce and the instructions were pretty good.  I had no problem 
> building.
> 
> We do need to mention that the environment variable 
> XDG_CONFIG_DIRS-/etc/xdg needs to be set.  startx crashes (with a 
> message) without it.

According to the spec 
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
"If $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is either not set or empty, a value equal to
/etc/xdg should be used."
IE, /etc/xdg is the default. XDG_CONFIG_DIRS only needs to be set if
you put the files somewhere else.

Andy
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