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freedesktop.org (fd.o), formerly X Desktop Group (XDG), is a project to work on interoperability and shared base technology for free-software desktop environments for the X Window System (X11) and Wayland on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Although freedesktop.org produces specifications for interoperability, it is not a formal standards body.

Key facts

Website.name
freedesktop.org
Website.logo
Freedesktop-logo.svg
Website.commercial
No
Website.type
Software development management system
Website.language
English
Website.author
Havoc Pennington
Website.current_status
Online

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
  • Hosted projects
  • Windowing system and graphics
  • Other
  • Base Directory Specification
  • User directories
  • System directories
  • Stated aims
  • See also
  • References
  • Sources
  • External links

freedesktop.org (fd.o), formerly X Desktop Group (XDG), is a project to work on interoperability and shared base technology for free-software desktop environments for the X Window System (X11) and Wayland on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Although freedesktop.org produces specifications for interoperability, it is not a formal standards body.

The project was founded by Havoc Pennington, a GNOME developer working for Red Hat in March 2000. Widely used open-source Desktop projects, such as GNOME, KDE's Plasma Desktop, and Xfce, are collaborating with the freedesktop.org project. In 2006, the project released Portland 1.0 (xdg-utils), a set of common interfaces for desktop environments. freedesktop.org joined the X.Org Foundation in 2019. Some of the project's servers are hosted by Portland State University.

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