Change $HOME for program generated files

I despise all junk that programs generate in my home directory; I'd like to see this stuff placed in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $XDG_CACHE_HOME.

However, there are too many programs to configure and most of them probably have path hardcoded to $HOME anyway.

I'd like to know if it's possible to somehow change $HOME to ~/.home while keeping original home dir for such things as BASH and that minimal file browser that apps use for opening/saving files.

environment-variables

usr

Posted 2011-11-29T23:38:32.993

Reputation: 535

Answers

I ran across libetc a couple months ago. I've never used it, and it is an LD_PRELOAD hack, so I'd be careful, but it sounds like what you're looking for.

Michael

Posted 2011-11-29T23:38:32.993

Reputation: 111

That's exactly what I'm looking for. I'm going to backup important dot-files in my $HOME and see how it works. Here's a guide on ArchWiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Libetc

– usr – 2011-11-30T00:07:17.003