[Req]: Add support for XDG base directory specification for Linux guests

[shmerl]

Component

vboxclient

What problem are you facing?

Currently, when running Linux guest in VirtualBox, a bunch of files like these are created in $HOME directory of the user:

.vboxclient-clipboard-tty2-control.pid
.vboxclient-clipboard-tty2-service.pid
.vboxclient-draganddrop-tty2-control.pid
.vboxclient-draganddrop-tty2-service.pid
.vboxclient-hostversion-tty1-control.pid
.vboxclient-hostversion-tty2-control.pid
.vboxclient-seamless-tty2-control.pid
.vboxclient-seamless-tty2-service.pid
.vboxclient-vmsvga-session-tty1-control.pid
.vboxclient-vmsvga-session-tty2-control.pid
.vboxclient-vmsvga-session-tty2-service.pid
.vboxclient-wayland-tty1-control.pid

How can we fix this?

Can you please use something like $HOME/.local/state/virtualbox/vboxclient* for that?

See more details about XDG base directory specification here:

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir/latest/

What alternatives or workarounds exist?

no

Anything else we should know?

No response