diff -Nru awesfx-0.4.4/awelib/config.h awesfx-0.4.4.new/awelib/config.h
--- awesfx-0.4.4/awelib/config.h	Wed May 31 13:03:30 2000
+++ awesfx-0.4.4.new/awelib/config.h	Sun Mar 23 14:15:42 2003
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 /* rc file & command line options */
 #define SYSTEM_RCFILE		"/etc/sfxloadrc"
 #define RCFILE			".sfxloadrc"
+#define CONFIG_DIR_RCFILE "sfxloadrc"
 
 /* big endian machine defines this */
 #undef BUILD_BIG_ENDIAN
diff -Nru awesfx-0.4.4/awelib/optfile.c awesfx-0.4.4.new/awelib/optfile.c
--- awesfx-0.4.4/awelib/optfile.c	Thu Apr 27 13:45:31 2000
+++ awesfx-0.4.4.new/awelib/optfile.c	Sun Mar 23 14:17:31 2003
@@ -47,6 +47,11 @@
 	OptionFile *rec;
 
 	*rcfile = 0;
+	if ((p = getenv("CONFIG_DIR")) != NULL && *p) {
+		sprintf(rcfile, "%s/%s", p, CONFIG_DIR_RCFILE);
+		if (access(rcfile, R_OK) != 0)
+			rcfile[0] = 0;
+	} else
 	if ((p = getenv("HOME")) != NULL && *p) {
 		sprintf(rcfile, "%s/%s", p, RCFILE);
 		if (access(rcfile, R_OK) != 0)