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minus-squareWilmo Bones@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkAkanarrow-up5·edit-28 months agoHoly moly great news. There’s hope for our /home after all. I think Firefox has an open bug thread or request thread for XDG Base Directory that’s like …20 years old?
minus-squareSamueru@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-28 months agohttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259356 20 indeed I use this script with librewolf, give it a try, simply place it in $HOME/.local/bin name it librewolf and export that location as first in $PATH: #!/bin/sh APPHOME="$XDG_DATA_HOME/librewolf/HOME" APPEXEC="$HOME/.local/opt/librewolf/librewolf" # Replace this with the path to librewolf # XDG Check if [ -z "$XDG_CACHE_HOME" ] || [ -z "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" ] || [ -z "$XDG_DATA_HOME" ] || [ -z "$XDG_STATE_HOME" ]; then echo "One or more XDG Base dir variables not defined, bailing out"; exit 1 fi # MAKE FAKEHOME AND LINKS mkdir -p "$APPHOME/.local" "$XDG_DATA_HOME/pki" "$XDG_DATA_HOME/icons" 2>/dev/null [ ! -e "$APPHOME/.local/share" ] && ln -s "$XDG_DATA_HOME" "$APPHOME/.local/share" [ ! -e "$APPHOME/.local/state" ] && ln -s "$XDG_STATE_HOME" "$APPHOME/.local/state" [ ! -e "$APPHOME/.config" ] && ln -s "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" "$APPHOME/.config" [ ! -e "$APPHOME/.cache" ] && ln -s "$XDG_CACHE_HOME" "$APPHOME/.cache" [ ! -e "$APPHOME/.icons" ] && ln -s "$XDG_DATA_HOME/icons" "$APPHOME/.icons" # Some apps have hardcoded ~/.icons path [ ! -e "$APPHOME/.pki" ] && ln -s "$XDG_DATA_HOME/pki" "$APPHOME/.pki" # Chromium/electron hardcode ~/.pki find "$APPHOME" -xtype l -delete for FILES in "$HOME"/*; do FILENAME=$(basename "$FILES") DEST="$APPHOME/$FILENAME" if [ ! -e "$DEST" ]; then ln -s "$FILES" "$DEST" fi done # START APP AT APPHOME HOME="$APPHOME" "$APPEXEC" "$@" || notify-send "App not found"
Holy moly great news. There’s hope for our /home after all. I think Firefox has an open bug thread or request thread for XDG Base Directory that’s like …20 years old?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259356
20 indeed
I use this script with librewolf, give it a try, simply place it in
$HOME/.local/bin
name it librewolf and export that location as first in$PATH
:#!/bin/sh APPHOME="$XDG_DATA_HOME/librewolf/HOME" APPEXEC="$HOME/.local/opt/librewolf/librewolf" # Replace this with the path to librewolf # XDG Check if [ -z "$XDG_CACHE_HOME" ] || [ -z "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" ] || [ -z "$XDG_DATA_HOME" ] || [ -z "$XDG_STATE_HOME" ]; then echo "One or more XDG Base dir variables not defined, bailing out"; exit 1 fi # MAKE FAKEHOME AND LINKS mkdir -p "$APPHOME/.local" "$XDG_DATA_HOME/pki" "$XDG_DATA_HOME/icons" 2>/dev/null [ ! -e "$APPHOME/.local/share" ] && ln -s "$XDG_DATA_HOME" "$APPHOME/.local/share" [ ! -e "$APPHOME/.local/state" ] && ln -s "$XDG_STATE_HOME" "$APPHOME/.local/state" [ ! -e "$APPHOME/.config" ] && ln -s "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" "$APPHOME/.config" [ ! -e "$APPHOME/.cache" ] && ln -s "$XDG_CACHE_HOME" "$APPHOME/.cache" [ ! -e "$APPHOME/.icons" ] && ln -s "$XDG_DATA_HOME/icons" "$APPHOME/.icons" # Some apps have hardcoded ~/.icons path [ ! -e "$APPHOME/.pki" ] && ln -s "$XDG_DATA_HOME/pki" "$APPHOME/.pki" # Chromium/electron hardcode ~/.pki find "$APPHOME" -xtype l -delete for FILES in "$HOME"/*; do FILENAME=$(basename "$FILES") DEST="$APPHOME/$FILENAME" if [ ! -e "$DEST" ]; then ln -s "$FILES" "$DEST" fi done # START APP AT APPHOME HOME="$APPHOME" "$APPEXEC" "$@" || notify-send "App not found"