clutter your HOME

I'm sick of software keeping itself "nice and tidy" nested in stupid directories with stupid names. I like chaos and knowing deep down inside that anything I need is a single tilde away.

A lot of programs are notorious for creating crap in some nested directory structure cluttering your .config. Most of these read an environment variable to fix this egregious behavior.

ls -la ~ | wc -l
1452

Ah. Perfect. My mind is now clear.

XDG_CRAP_DIR

FreeDesktop are the evil entity taking my tilde away. Thankfully their own efforts can be used against them to bring chaos and peace back HOME.

export XDG_CACHE_HOME=~
export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=~
export XDG_DATA_HOME=~
export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=~
export XDG_DATA_DIRS=~
export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=~

GOOD HOME respecting software

This page has a list of software that respects your Wife, Children and your HOME: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory

• ALSA: ~/.asoundrc
• AzPainer: ~/.azpainter
• BitchX: ~/.BitchX (Don't tell your parents)
• Firefox: ~/.mozilla
• GnuPG: ~/.gnupg
• Nix: ~/.nixpkgs, ~/.nix-profile, ~/.nix-defexpr, ~/.nix-channels
• OpenSSH: ~/.ssh
• Shells: ~/.shellrc
• Surf: ~/.surf
• URxvt: ~/.urxvt
• bim: ~/.biminfo
• dosbox: ~/.dosbox
• feh: ~/.fehbg
• howl: ~/.howl
• nodejs: ~/.node_repl_history
• npm: ~/.npm
• pass: ~/.password-store
• vim: ~/.vim
• weechat: ~/.weechat
• xsel: ~/.xsel.log (This one is a MUST HAVE)

BAD BAD BAD SHAME LIST

This page has a list of software that disrespects your Wife, Children and your HOME: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory

• ????: $XDG_CRAP_HOME/jesseduffield (WHO?)
• aerc: $XDG_CRAP_HOME/aerc
• berry: $XDG_CRAP_HOME/berry
• bspwm: $XDG_CRAP_HOME/bspwm
• cmus: $XDG_CRAP_HOME/cmus
• falkon: $XDG_WHERE?/falkon
• gh: $XDG_CRAP_HOME/fg
• glib: $XDG_CRAP_HOUSE/glib-2.0
• grafx2: $XDG_CRAP_HOME/grafx2
• htop: $XDG_CRAP_HOME/htop
• i3: $XDG_CRAP_HOME/i3
• keepassc: $XDG_CRAP_HOME/keepassc
• mpv: $XDG_CRAP_HOME/mpv
• neofetch: $XDG_CRAP_HOME/neofetch
• openbox: $XDG_CRAP_HOME/openbox
• sxhkd: $XDG_CRAP_HOME/sxhkd
• wal: $XDG_CRAP_HOME/wal