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[โ€“] sushibowl@feddit.nl 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Lots of tools ignore xdg, and issues asking to add support get bogged down in backwards compatibility problems. The best they achieve is to introduce yet another env variable to control where the config goes. It's really annoying.

I have a bunch of TOOLX_CONFIG="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/toolx" stuff in my bashrc.

[โ€“] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes? Most workarounds are in the link. If not, please add them.

But sure, some have none.