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!

  • @_HR_
    3•2 years ago

    Not an immediate, but longterm solution: ask app developers to respect $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG Base Directory Specification in general.

    And spread the knowledge about the spec, awareness of it helps.