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@[email protected] to [email protected] • 2 years ago

Dotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories.

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Dotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories.

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    W should make a .dotfiles directory for them.

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      export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/juser/.dotfiles

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        13•2 years ago

        Well, isn’t it .config by default?

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          Yes, but OP wanted .dotfiles. Nice thing with XDG is that you can change all that.

          The user directories Desktop, Downloads, etc. can be changed as well: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories

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            …that’s assuming that apps actually respect that environment variable. The problem is that if the app is writing to ${HOME} then they’re already not following XDG spec.

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