diff --git a/home/.config/shell/environment b/home/.config/shell/environment
index 38abde3..305dc23 100755
--- a/home/.config/shell/environment
+++ b/home/.config/shell/environment
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config"
 export XDG_CACHE_HOME="$HOME/.cache"
 export XDG_DATA_HOME="$HOME/.local/share"
 export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$uid"
+export XDG_STATE_HOME="$HOME/.local/state"
 
 # Per-Application XDG settings
 export ZDOTDIR="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/zsh"
diff --git a/home/.local/state/.keep b/home/.local/state/.keep
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/install_user.sh b/install_user.sh
index 271da1f..9b13082 100755
--- a/install_user.sh
+++ b/install_user.sh
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ cp -ra home/.local/bin ~/.local
 cp -ra home/.config/python ~/.config
 install -m 700 -d ~/.local/share/gnupg
 mkdir -p ~/.local/share/npm/lib
+mkdir -p ~/.local/state
 cp -ra home/.config/btop ~/.config
 mkdir -p ~/.config/gtk-2.0
 mkdir -p ~/.config/gtk-3.0