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!

  • hschen
    131·
    1 year ago

    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

    • devfuuu@lemmy.world
      91·
      1 year ago

      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.