From c928f41330ece779127a0c4c9b6ca0fdde8a1046 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 11:28:32 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] * etc/NEWS: Improve XDG_RUNTIME_DIR doc. --- etc/NEWS | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index dd08675f425..e25df98243f 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ The command-line argument '--socket-name' overrides it. +++ *** Emacs and emacsclient now default to "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/emacs" as the directory for client/server sockets, if Emacs is running -under an X Window System desktop that sets the 'XDG_RUNTIME_DIR' +on a platform or environment that sets the 'XDG_RUNTIME_DIR' environment variable to indicate where session sockets should go. To get the old, less-secure behavior, you can set the 'EMACS_SOCKET_NAME' environment variable to an appropriate value. -- 2.39.2