.gradle keep comming back

[Renarde-dev]

Even after adding export GRADLE_USER_HOME="$XDG_DATA_HOME"/gradle to my zshrc file, .gradle kept coming back.
From what I understand, this is because Jetbrains product ( IntelliJ, Android Studio, etc... ) don't follow environment variable and hardcode $HOME/.gradle

Maybe this issue is related https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-141832

The only fix I found is adding my gradle path in the setting of each Jetbrains product that use gradle.
File > Settings > Build, Execution, Deployment > Build Tools > Gradle

[Renarde-dev]

Jetbrains product also make .java come back every time the only fix I have found is to add -Djava.util.prefs.userRoot=.config/java to each .vmoption

[b3nj5m1n]

Hi, thank you for reporting this, and sorry the suggestion isn't working properly!

I don't have the time to update the suggestion myself at the moment, so if you (or anyone else) happen to have some time, I'd greatly appreciate if you made a PR with added instructions for Jetbrains software.

[62832]

To that I'd also like to add that specifying locations for anything to do with Maven seems to do nothing on IDEA, considering that it insists on creating a ~/.m2 directory in which to store dependencies from Maven repositories.

JetBrains' Rider also suffers from a similar deal, creating ~/.nuget and ~/.templateengine without fail.

[62832]

Never mind, much of this seems to be caused by the general idea that GUI applications don't necessarily follow environment variables set for the shell. OP's issue can be solved just fine by setting the variable instead in something such as .xprofile or whatever else is used by their desktop environment.

[Renarde-dev]

Hi, I don't know what would be used by Gnome wayland.

[62832]

Hi, I don't know what would be used by Gnome wayland.

This seems to have the answer for it. In general, you'd want to figure out how to set environment variables for the graphical session as opposed to the shell.

[Renarde-dev]

I after reading and testing out things. I think I've what works !
First I need to create $HOME/.config/.config/environment.d/profile.conf and add my environment variables, for exemple :

# XDG vars
XDG_DATA_HOME=$HOME/.local/share
XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config
XDG_STATE_HOME=$HOME/.local/state
XDG_CACHE_HOME=$HOME/.cache

#Env Vars
_JAVA_OPTIONS=-Djava.util.prefs.userRoot="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"/java
GRADLE_USER_HOME="$XDG_DATA_HOME"/gradle
ANDROID_HOME="$XDG_DATA_HOME"/android
IPYTHONDIR="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/ipython"
HISTFILE="$XDG_STATE_HOME"/zsh/history
VIMINIT="source ~/.config/vim/vimrc"
WINEPREFIX="$XDG_DATA_HOME"/wine

I think I will be opening a PR when I have the time