Re: pam_xdg

On Wed, 10 Dec 2025 at 02:36, Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@gmx.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Through the years I've been using 'startx & sleep 5; exit', as I didn't
> want or need to keep the virtual terminal opened. This seems broken
> since pam_xdg's inclusion in FreeBSD-15 because it sets XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
> in the environment and creates the user's directory in /var/run/xdg.
> When you log out -as I do- pam_xdg deletes the user's directory and
> programs that I run later in my X session and use XDG, fail because
> the directory isn't there. My current thinking is removing pam_xdg from
> pam configuration. I am not sure whether I am missing something (or
> logging out of the virtual terminal is really weird and I should
> stop doing it).

Yes don't do that, please just startx and leave it alone.

Modern X environments need a bunch of XDG_ stuff set and available.


-adrian