It dates back to 2006.

Huh.

File is the tool to identify the type of a file.

OOooooh

It uses magic bytes and all kinds of things to identify a file and output something like a mime type.

Yeah, I know what you're talking about now

You can define those as expressions in its config file.

@Undead Mockingbird I want to see your desktop, you seem like a dude who would have a really good one.

The expressions can get pretty complicated.

To my shame, I have given up on Desktop customization, because I am really insanely OCD.

I now use Mac OS, just so I can't fiddle with the look endlessly.

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I spent MONTHS customizing my Linux desktop.

Sorry.

MacOS :((((((((((((((((((((

OpenGL effects, compiz, evertyhign.

SOrry, I have to use MacOS.

It's the only system that allows me to develop on all platforms we have to support.

Sad

Sad times, brother

It's fine. I wasted too much time.

Maybe when I retire.

Plus, I was really pissed how the quality of KDE and Gnome went downhill, so Iditched them for a while.

Rip. I just use openbox

Yes, I figured, by you asking about xdg.

But, I suppose it works in any environment.

BTW, you can use strace to debug quickly why it's not working.

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