[larusso]

Oh I‘m fighting the battle for a clean home directory for years. I even use a setup on macOS to set specific environment variables via systemd during login so I can link them into the .config directory.

Only issue with my setup in general is that I can‘t just replicate it for other people. I moved .aws directory in .config/aws and I sometimes forget what the default for most tools is or where I helped the tool out to „find the right path“.

I also make sure when writing scripts/cli tools to use the XDG spec. In rust I use the dirs crate for example. I even go so far to never hardcode it for my own config scripts/files just in case I think about going from ~/.config to ~/.my_configurations or whatever.

[moondev]

macOS + systemd? If on Linux this tool allows you to move config dir and file locations transparently. Pretty neat. https://github.com/queer/boxxy

[larusso]

Nice. Thanks for that.

This is my launch agent. https://github.com/Larusso/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/yadm... The nice side effect is that Apps launched via Spotlight will also inherit the path etc since they all are owned by launchd in the end.

[larusso]

Edit: Sorry for the confusion with systemd I meant launchd. I always mix these up.