Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, without symlinks

Re:Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, ... by ossusermivami on Thursday February 09, 2023 @05:31PM (#34732613)

nice idea but tmux may not be the right example for the readme example since tmux actually supports XDG and its config in ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf

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Re:Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, ... by notamy on Thursday February 09, 2023 @05:39PM (#34732699)

TIL! I guess I'll find a better example.

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Re:Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, ... by acdw on Thursday February 09, 2023 @06:21PM (#34733169)

I humbly submit either bash, sh, or zsh --- they all put dotfiles in $HOME that you can't move (zsh technically /can/, but they're still dotfiles and you have to set them in ~/.zshenv). Very annoying IMO.

Course, might not work so well with the way boxxy is run ... unless you chsh to boxxy bash or something.

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Re:Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, ... by 149765 on Thursday February 09, 2023 @10:28PM (#34735254)

It's possible to set $ZDOTDIR in /etc/zsh/zshenv, I used to do it before switching to fish.

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