Dotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories.
Dotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories.
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Magnetar @feddit.de W should make a .dotfiles directory for them.
10 0 Replylloram239 @feddit.de export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/juser/.dotfiles
14 1 ReplyLemmchen @feddit.de
Well, isn't it
.config
by default?13 0 Replylloram239 @feddit.de 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
15 0 Replyinetknght @lemmy.ml ...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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