Consider using XDG_CACHE_HOME for the log file.

Question

Earnestly opened this issue 9 years ago · comments

This would mean instead of HOME/.xsel.log, XDG_CACHE_HOME/xsel/log would be
used.

If XDG_CACHE_HOME is not set or not absolute, the fallback HOME/.cache
should be substituted instead.

Severen Redwood · Answer 1 · Thu Oct 15 2015 19:10:54 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

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This blog post lists the advantages of using the XDG Base Directory Specification as follows:

$HOME is a lot less cluttered.
Backups are a lot more safer and easier. (you know that backuping your $XDG_DATA_HOME along with your files is enough)
A lot easier to reset a default configuration if you want/need it (and without any risk of loosing information).
Avoid some strange bugs that happen because you had a old version of some configuration file.
It is a lot more flexible and portable because no paths are hard-coded. You can use the XDG library that does the job for you or, if you don’t want the dependency, implementing the XDG specification is only a few lines of code.

Alad Wenter · Answer 2 · Fri May 27 2016 01:54:39 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Any progress on this?

Earnestly · Answer 3 · Fri May 27 2016 02:43:02 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

xsel seems more-or-less dead. @AladW Is there any reason to use this over xclip?

Alad Wenter · Answer 4 · Fri Jun 10 2016 05:01:06 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

There's some caveats when using it with tmux, cf. https://sourceforge.net/p/xclip/bugs/9/

Conrad Parker · Answer 5 · Thu Aug 24 2017 10:07:32 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

This was implemented by @valeth in Nov 2015, and merged in Aug 2016.