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Fix documentation for default location of jupyter runtime files
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Since [jupyter_core PR jupyter#143](jupyter/jupyter_core#143),
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is no longer used to set Jupyter runtime dir, and the
default on all platforms is `(data_dir)/runtime`.
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cmd-ntrf committed Aug 30, 2023
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Things like connection files, which are only useful for the lifetime of a
particular process, have a runtime directory.

On Linux and other free desktop platforms, these runtime files are stored in
``$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/jupyter`` by default. On other platforms, it's a
``runtime/`` subdirectory of the user's data directory (second row of the
table above).
These runtime files are stored in a ``runtime/`` subdirectory of the user's
data directory (second row of the table above).

An environment variable may also be used to set the runtime directory.

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