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Cleaning up the whole $HOME/<.pkgname>/ situation for individual app settings (iusearchlinux.fyi)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey guys! Is there a way for me to force apps to treat e.g. $HOME/.config/ as their default directory to look for settings? I want to clear up my home directory because its getting quite messy and I don't even have that many packages installed yet.

Also, any way that would be easy and efficient for use with git for the purpose of backing up my dotfiles.

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory#Support, the situation is crap tbh and alot of devs refuse to even give you the option of switching to XDG standards for some reason. I started using flatpaks for most of my programs just to escape this.

I do know XDG standards are messy for devs to implement but at least have everything in .config or .local instead of spewing it across my home folder

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've seen developers complain that xdg is not a true standard and it only works on linux, which at that point I wanna start slapping people around.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've seen this too, but as someone who's submitted patches to 5+ projects to fix the pathing, not once has it been rejected

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Thank you for your service o7