On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Sebastian Schwarz wrote:

On 2010-10-14 at 10:57 -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote:

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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.

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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

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:33 AM, meganox wrote:

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:57 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote:

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awhile back, i believe it was on this list, there was some messages about cleaning up the .<files> in your HOME folder...

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.

thanks,

C Anthony

You are thinking of the xdg user directories vars set in the file ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs:

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs

nice, thanks guys. i have yet to actually do this yet, but i'm pretty sure it's the information i was looking for. C Anthony