[arch-general] Method to redirect hidden config files in ~

[C Anthony Risinger]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Sebastian Schwarz
<seschwar at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 2010-10-14 at 10:57 -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
>> awhile back, i believe it was on this list, there was some
>> amessages bout cleaning up the .<files> in your HOME folder...
>
> It can be achieved by preloading this library:
> http://ordiluc.net/fs/libetc/
>
> Since I am not using it I can't tell how well it works.  Maybe
> someone else can.
>
>> can someone point me in the right direction here? i swear all
>> i needed to do was export the proper VARS but i cannot seem to
>> find the info now.
>
> Or do you mean this approach for certain directories:
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs

ah nice, i think both actually came up in the thread.  i'll check this
out and see if they do what i want.

thanks,

C Anthony