diff --git a/docs/sharing.md b/docs/sharing.md
index 5145e84..80336fa 100644
--- a/docs/sharing.md
+++ b/docs/sharing.md
@@ -143,9 +143,10 @@ turns the question off too.
 link then opens a new window of the terminal you ran it in, with
 lazysecrets on that link. It recognises kitty, Ghostty, WezTerm, iTerm2,
 Terminal.app, Alacritty, GNOME Terminal, Konsole and foot, also inside
-tmux; `--terminal NAME` picks another. It records your `PATH` and config
-locations, since apps start without your shell's environment (and so
-without `az`): run it again after moving lazysecrets or changing those.
+tmux; `--terminal NAME` picks another. It records your `PATH`, config
+locations and XDG directories, since apps start without your shell's
+environment (and so without `az`): run it again after moving lazysecrets
+or changing those.
 
 - macOS: a small background app, `~/Applications/Lazysecrets Links.app`
 - Linux: a desktop entry claiming `x-scheme-handler/lazysecrets`, set as
diff --git a/internal/linkhandler/terminal.go b/internal/linkhandler/terminal.go
index 536de7b..6776f37 100644
--- a/internal/linkhandler/terminal.go
+++ b/internal/linkhandler/terminal.go
@@ -166,9 +166,11 @@ func Executable() (string, error) {
 
 // passEnv lists the variables carried from the install's environment to
 // lazysecrets in the new window: apps start with a minimal environment,
-// without Homebrew's PATH (so no az) or the user's config locations.
+// without Homebrew's PATH (so no az) or the user's XDG directories, so
+// the window would use another cache and miss running instances' sockets.
 var passEnv = []string{
-	"PATH", "LAZYSECRETS_CONFIG_FILE", "LAZYSECRETS_ICONS", "XDG_CONFIG_HOME", "XDG_STATE_HOME",
+	"PATH", "LAZYSECRETS_CONFIG_FILE", "LAZYSECRETS_ICONS",
+	"XDG_CONFIG_HOME", "XDG_STATE_HOME", "XDG_CACHE_HOME", "XDG_RUNTIME_DIR", "XDG_DATA_HOME",
 	"AZURE_CONFIG_DIR", "DATABRICKS_CONFIG_FILE",
 }