Run xdg with strace prepended and you will see all system calls.

It usually tells you if it's looking in the wrong path, etc.

I don't care enough to debug it right now, but I will later

It might be that an environment/PATH variable is incorrect.

time to post my desktop because I like it so much

You can also run "which"

It has options for debug spew.

The desktop widget is nice.

Do you have an animated background?

Here's the autistic version

No, it's not animated

You can easily use an animated desktop background.

I might

I just prefer to keep RAM to a minimum

It's usually 200mb or less

I was imitating what Mac OS has done in Mojave.

They now have a dynamic wallpaper that changes with your time of day.

Oh?

I usually use a RAM disk for all my applications.

I hate delays when working.

Use all the RAM you want.

Huh.

It's cheap.

I don't have fancy hardware

if you saw the neofetch you'd see what I'm working with

It's worth getting something good if it's your workstation.

Any little delay can slow you down when working.

I've got a $200 laptop with 2GB, I don't have much money

Program something and sell it.

I'm working on something currently

Ah, okay.

It'll provide me with enough funds to build a nice PC

You should add tips for feature requests.

Kind of like a patreon tier system.

People can request little features in exchange for donating.

Or just haivng their names added to the credits/about page.

Well, because of the nature of the thing I'm building, it's pretty important that I take suggestions

It's a SaaS

Cool. Good luck.