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Re:Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, ... by tadfisher on Thursday February 09, 2023 @09:52PM (#34735067)
You can set the XDG environment variables in Direnv maybe?
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Re:Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, ... by account42 on Friday February 10, 2023 @09:03AM (#34739678)
The Desktop, Downloads, Pictures, etc. directories are not from the XDG Basedir spec and not set by XDG_ environment variables but instead in the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/user-dirs.dirs file. I also find these less useful than the more generel data/config/cache dirs.
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