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!

  • @KindaABigDyl
    13•1 year ago

    No. Some applications won’t change even if you’d make the PR for them, simply because they don’t want to change legacy features.

    For instance, the bash maintainers have refused to put .bashrc into .config/ and to even allow the option to move it.

    xdg ninja can help move some stuff out of your home dir tho