Some problems for installing bspwm on freebsd

[osenberg]

After sudo pkg install bspwm, bspwm said it's configure file in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bspwm/bspwmrc, but I found XDG_CONFIG_HOME enviroment variable is null. How to fixed it? What is XDG_CONFIG_HOME?

 

[a6h]

It's X aka XDG config directory. If you don't have a .config directory in your home, create one:
mkdir $HOME/.config

Set the var in this session:
export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config"

To make it permanent: add this to

~/.profile:

XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config"; export XDG_CONFIG_HOME

Footnote: I'm not familiar with bspwm, but x11-wm/i3 has similar concept i.e. .config. Read more at i3(1)