The .config directory makes me angry.

Anikom15 · 2010-01-29 17:17:51

I don't like having to type ls -a ~/.config/ and ls - a ~ to see all my dotfiles, it's really annoying and just obfuscates everything. Is there a way to change it?

skanky · 2010-01-29 17:21:47

You could:

1) set $XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME ? or
2) set-up a function to combine a listing of both, or
3) use libetc to just use .config and use a function to ls -A that?

Barrucadu · 2010-01-29 17:55:09

Be angry at the developers who don't make their programs use ~/.config

JohannesSM64 · 2010-01-29 18:01:20

Barrucadu wrote:

Be angry at the developers who don't make their programs use ~/.config

The problem is that ~ is already standardized for a heap of programs, and changing it would introduce some migration pain. It seems most GUI apps (at least new ones) use ~/.config, while CLI apps stick with ~.

d2ogch3n · 2010-01-29 18:03:29

alias lc='ls -a .config' maybe

Anikom15 · 2010-01-29 18:15:34

I'm angry at the developers who make their programs use ~/.config. . . .

sand_man · 2010-01-29 22:22:46

Someone pointed me to a program that forces the use of the .config directory...I can't remember what its called now. Let me search it.

edit:

Here it is, http://ordiluc.net/fs/libetc/

Last edited by sand_man (2010-01-29 22:23:38)

Anikom15 · 2010-01-29 22:48:25

But I don't want to use the .config directory. I want it GONE.

fsckd · 2010-01-29 22:55:16

Edit: As Runiq points out, setting XDG to use ~ does not hide the files. You can ignore this post if you want. Keeping for posterity to point and laugh at me.

Did skanky's suggestion not work? You're not forced to use ~/.config. By setting the appropriate XDG env var you can make those programs use /in/the/glorious/config/directory should you want them too. Your imagination is your limit.

Last edited by fsckd (2010-01-29 23:09:38)

Runiq · 2010-01-29 22:56:05

Kinda reminds me of this.

Anikom15, I don't think there is a simple solution to that: You could use ~ instead of ~/.config as XDG_CONFIG_HOME, but all those configuration directories wouldn't be hidden anymore…

Anikom15 · 2010-01-30 03:02:05

Whose idea was it to have a .config directory? I think I'm gonna kill them.

DonVla · 2010-01-30 03:07:56

@Anikom15
What's your problem??
Just use the XDG_CONFIG_HOME variable...

Allan · 2010-01-30 04:03:50

Anikom15 wrote:

Whose idea was it to have a .config directory? I think I'm gonna kill them.

Get a blog for your petty rants. You have been provided solutions...

Closing.

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