diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 7464323..68068e1 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ VERSION = 27.1
 # PREFIX for install
 PREFIX ?= /usr/local
 MANPREFIX = $(PREFIX)/share/man
+DOCPREFIX = $(PREFIX)/share/doc/nsxiv
 
 # autoreload backend: inotify/nop
 AUTORELOAD = inotify
@@ -82,11 +83,11 @@ install: all
 	install -Dt $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin nsxiv
 	@echo "INSTALL nsxiv.1"
 	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(MANPREFIX)/man1
-	sed "s!PREFIX!$(PREFIX)!g; s!VERSION!$(VERSION)!g" nsxiv.1 \
+	sed "s!DOCPREFIX!$(DOCPREFIX)!g; s!PREFIX!$(PREFIX)!g; s!VERSION!$(VERSION)!g" nsxiv.1 \
 		>$(DESTDIR)$(MANPREFIX)/man1/nsxiv.1
 	chmod 644 $(DESTDIR)$(MANPREFIX)/man1/nsxiv.1
 	@echo "INSTALL share/nsxiv/"
-	install -Dt $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/share/nsxiv/exec exec/*
+	install -Dt $(DESTDIR)$(DOCPREFIX)/examples examples/*
 
 uninstall:
 	@echo "REMOVE bin/nsxiv"
@@ -94,5 +95,5 @@ uninstall:
 	@echo "REMOVE nsxiv.1"
 	rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(MANPREFIX)/man1/nsxiv.1
 	@echo "REMOVE share/nsxiv/"
-	rm -rf $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/share/nsxiv
+	rm -rf $(DESTDIR)$(DOCPREFIX)
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2799bf1..69e4632 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ You can install nsxiv into a directory of your choice by changing this command t
 
     $ make PREFIX="/your/dir" install
 
+Example scripts are installed using `DOCPREFIX` which defaults to
+`/usr/local/share/doc/nsxiv`. You can change `DOCPREFIX` the same way you can
+change `PREFIX` shown above.
+
 The build-time specific settings of nsxiv can be found in the file *config.h*.
 Please check and change them, so that they fit your needs.
 If the file *config.h* does not already exist, then you have to create it with
diff --git a/exec/image-info b/examples/image-info
similarity index 100%
rename from exec/image-info
rename to examples/image-info
diff --git a/exec/key-handler b/examples/key-handler
similarity index 100%
rename from exec/key-handler
rename to examples/key-handler
diff --git a/nsxiv.1 b/nsxiv.1
index 98b10a4..2a08c7f 100644
--- a/nsxiv.1
+++ b/nsxiv.1
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ and the arguments given to it are: 1) path to image file, 2) image width,
 3) image height.
 .P
 There is also an example script installed together with nsxiv as
-.IR PREFIX/share/nsxiv/exec/image-info .
+.IR DOCPREFIX/examples/image-info .
 .SH EXTERNAL KEY HANDLER
 Additional external keyboard commands can be defined using a handler program
 located in
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ where C/M/S indicate Ctrl/Meta(Alt)/Shift modifier states and KEY is the X
 keysym as listed in /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h without the "XK_" prefix.
 
 There is also an example script installed together with nsxiv as
-.IR PREFIX/share/nsxiv/exec/key-handler .
+.IR DOCPREFIX/examples/key-handler .
 .SH THUMBNAIL CACHING
 nsxiv stores all thumbnails under
 .IR $XDG_CACHE_HOME/nsxiv/ .