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Cleaning up the whole $HOME/<.pkgname>/ situation for individual app settings (iusearchlinux.fyi)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] 2 points 3 years ago

I'm a recent transplant from windows to linux and I saw this coming. My Documents is not reserved for documents that are actually mine, I had no expectation /home would be any different, and it seems I was correct. Other than some things I want quick access to (downloads, notes, scripts) I keep everything I care about organized under /data.

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