rikmills added a comment.
So if XDG_CONFIG_DIRS contains additional locations, this will not work? e.g. in Kubuntu we set up: XDG_CONFIG_DIRS="$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS:/usr/share/kubuntu-default-settings/kf5-settings" REPOSITORY R108 KWin REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D22238 To: fvogt, #plasma Cc: rikmills, kwin, plasma-devel, LeGast00n, sbergeron, jraleigh, fbampaloukas, GB_2, mkulinski, ragreen, jackyalcine, Pitel, iodelay, crozbo, bwowk, ZrenBot, ngraham, alexeymin, himcesjf, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, hardening, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, mart