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Rayhem

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Registered: 2021-12-01

Posts: 15

[SOLVED] Moving hidden files/folders in ~/

Not important, but I personal don't like too many things (albeit hidden) in my home directory and I was curious what is the best way of moving these items into a new directory?

For example, firefox creates ~/.mozilla, how can I move this as a subfolder under .config (~/.config/mozilla) without breaking my firefox setup?
Does each application need to be addressed individually (i.e. 'about:setup' for firefox), is this something that would need to be manually changed and compiled, or is there some invisible symlink secret I dont know about ? 

Just trying to expand my knowledge and looking for some guidance.

Thanks for your help.
Ryan

Last edited by Rayhem (2021-12-04 19:57:48)

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: [SOLVED] Moving hidden files/folders in ~/

Unfortunately it's still per application at the moment although support is getting better. Read...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory

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pavan_bhat

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Registered: 2022-01-05

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] Moving hidden files/folders in ~/

Is there a way or Still there is no support for moving .mozilla folder ?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 74,325

Re: [SOLVED] Moving hidden files/folders in ~/

It hasn't changed in 18 years, but you hope it might have changed in the last month?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259356

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