Attention electron developers: under no circumstances do I want your entire app in .config.
You feel the curling of the monkey’s paw; the entire app is now in ~/.local/AppName
I mean… At least that’s more correct… If the monkey’s paw is giving us things that are better but not ideal i’m gonna use the fuck out of it.
Even better, ~/.local/share/
As an alternative, how about my entire cache in
.config?Looking at you VSCode, with 3 unique cache folders.
but please don’t hard-code
~/.configor$HOME/.config. Use theXDG_CONFIG_HOMEenvironment variable, with$HOME/.configas a fallback if it’s not set.Many programming languages have a cross-platform implementation of this built in to their standard library. C# has
Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData)which uses XDG_CONFIG_HOME on Linux, local AppData on Windows, and whatever is the correct thing on MacOS (not very familiar with how things work on MacOS)On macOS, the correct thing to use is usually NSUserDefaults API, or
- [NSFileManager URLsForDirectory:inDomains:]with NSApplicationSupportDirectory (gives a list of paths to find your config file in, like XDG_CONFIG_DIRS)In Python the equivalent library is
platformdirsNever new about this! That’s very handy
I keep my home directory nice and tidy in terms of visible files/folders, but as soon as you ls -a there’s so much random shit
Please use
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME(and other XDG base dirs)Is that the Stanley cup in the first image?
Use xdg-ninja to help clear out unwanted files not in your home folder, and give tips to move them into a normal folder like .config
It’s still a lot better that creating random .folders per application in your home.
Nah just put it in ~
/.thing-config.d/01-0x45- 110100100-main.options-extra2cache.swpalong with three godzillion other files like it’s normal and very sane for users who edit such files to have the big picture of the default configuration dreamed up by some utterly deranged lunatic be spread across enough files to represent all known stars in the galaxy, standards are for losers amirite /s
The font in the screenshot makes me angry.
Hey! Would you mind guiding me as to what is going on in this picture? Is this an APP that allowed to SSH into your server? You got my attention with this picture, and I’m curious to hear more.
It’s Termux, basically a fully fletched terminal for Android. So you can install various tools via apt, and use them, for example yt-dlp, ffmpeg, gcc, python etc. And yes, you can also use SSH, both as server and client. I use it very often to connect to my servers on the go.
You can even use chroot to basically run a distro of your choice.
Damn, that sound pretty cool, thanks for the info!
It’s also incredibly useful to backup /sdcard via rsync or Borg every night automatically
Or access the contents of your phone via SFTP
I like using syncthing. It syncs all my apps that are backed up with neobackup, my pictures, files etc. to my NAS. Then my NAS runs borg on that directory as well as all the other important NAS directories to make the legit backups.
I have termux installed but I honestly rarely use it. Hate typing on the phone in the terminal… if I need to do it then I’ll just adb connect from my computer and do it from there on a real keyboard.
XDG? OpenDesktop? Dunno what that is, time to dump everything into ~/.myawesomeapp
Just dump it in
~Oh, no. Don’t even make it a hidden folder, it needs to be right there, front and center. And make sure you use a bunch of capital letters in the name, because you’re so fucking important.
Android Studio
First line of my /etc/profile:
export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=~/
Just give me ~/etc/
It really depends for what. I don’t think nginx config should be in $HOME/.conf/
Unless it’s running as your own user as part of your session.
/etcfor system-wide and~/.configfor your own user makes a lot of sense.Right? It goes into ~/Documents/
SMH my head
Everything into ~/Downloads/ until the partition is full.
Laughs in NixOS
Nixos still slaps your home route with a bunch of . Files
Yes, but I never have to look at them
