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		anoncake on Feb 2, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dotfile madness export XDG_HOME_CONFIG=$HOME

fiddlerwoaroof on Feb 2, 2019 [–]

This isn’t a solution, because programs that follow the standard generally don’t create dotfiles.

export XDG_HOME_CONFIG=$HOME/. might work for some broken programs but it would be a hack.

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