xfce_get_homedir ()

const gchar *
xfce_get_homedir (void);

Similar to g_get_homedir() in functionality but will never return NULL. While g_get_homedir() may return NULL under certain circumstances, this function is garantied to never ever return NULL, but always return a valid character pointer with the absolute path to the user's home directory.

The returned string is owned by libxfce4util and must not be freed by the caller.

xfce_get_homefile()

#define             xfce_get_homefile(...)

Returns the path to a file in the user's home directory by taking a NULL terminated list of strings and appending them to the absolute path of the current user's home directory.

xfce_get_homefile_r ()

gchar *
xfce_get_homefile_r (gchar *buffer,
                     size_t length,
                     const gchar *format,
                     ...);

Similar in functionality to xfce_get_homefile, but uses a user defined buffer instead of allocating a new buffer.

xfce_get_homefile_r uses safe string operations, that says, it garanties that the resulting string is always zero terminated, as long as the length is greater than zero.

xfce_get_userdir ()

const gchar *
xfce_get_userdir (void);

Safe way to retrieve the path to the user's ".xfce4" directory. The path to the current user's ".xfce4" directory is either taken from the environment variable XFCE4HOME if defined, or if unset, is gained by concatenating the path to the user's home directory and the ".xfce4". That says, it will, by default, return the path "$HOME/.xfce4", where $HOME is replaced with the absolute path to the user's home directory.

The returned string is managed by libxfce4util and must not be freed by the caller.

xfce_get_userfile()

#define             xfce_get_userfile(...)

Returns the absolute path to a file within the user's ".xfce4" directory, formed by a NULL terminated list of path components.

xfce_get_userfile_r ()

gchar *
xfce_get_userfile_r (gchar *buffer,
                     size_t length,
                     const gchar *format,
                     ...);

xfce_gethostname ()

gchar *
xfce_gethostname (void);

Portable way to query the hostname of the node running the process. This function does not ever return NULL, but always returns a string containing the current node's hostname.

xfce_expand_variables ()

gchar *
xfce_expand_variables (const gchar *command,
                       gchar **envp);

Expands shell like environment variables and tilde (~/ and ~user/ are both supported) in command .

Since: 4.2