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Vim Lands XDG Base Directory Specification Support
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vim-XDG-Base-Directory-Spec
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vim-XDG-Base-Directory-Spec
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"