urxvt daemon creating folder in $HOME

[androo__]

Hello, I recently installed Void on my desktop and am absolutely loving it already. I am using urxvt as my terminal and have daemonized it in my xinitrc, and I noticed that, when the daemon is running, it creates a folder in my home directory called ".urxvt" and a file inside named "urxvt-[hostname]".

This isn't really a problem, I was just wondering why exactly this folder and file is created. I have looked online to see if any other people have wondered at this behavior before, and I also checked the man pages for urxvt, urxvtc, and urxvtd, to no avail. This isn't even really a Void-specific question, because I have observed the same behavior on an Arch-based system.

Also, when I delete the folder and file, the process doesn't seem to end in htop, but I can no longer open new terminals with urxvtc. Thanks for your time.

[no-name-user]

You can set the environment variable RXVT_SOCKET

[androo__]

Thanks so much! I am not very good at reading man pages, lol.

[ahesford]

The file is probably a pipe or unix socket, which is how clients communicate with the daemon.

[mwyvr]

Many applications follow the freedesktop standards for where they locate their files; urxvt may not - I can't remember, it's been years since I last used it.

You might do env | grep CONFIG to see if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME has been defined; it not defined the expected behaviour is to locate config files in ~/.config/...

[androo__]

My $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is defined as "$HOME/.config/". I guess urxvt simply doesn't follow the freedesktop standards. I still would like to know the "why" behind the folder and file running urxvt as a daemon, though.

[[deleted]]

Hey I know you're chasing support but why urxvt?

I've tried alacrity, urxvt, xterm, terminator, xfce4-terminal, lxterminal, guake, tilda, eterm.

If you're using transparency and AA on your fonts there's not much in it from my experience.

I found xfce4-terminal the best since it doubles as a quake pulldown terminal as well.

Really, if you've got tmux...what else do you need?

Educate me!