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Hello,
Have you thought that if you move config directories from your home folder to another place, all users on the system will be forced to use YOUR settings ! (and see what they are ...)
Remember that Linux emanate from Unix which is a multi user system ....


Hi,

you seem to be ...

The convention of having . directories in $HOME (vs somewhere like .config) is over 50 years old. I would just leave well enough alone.


Well, it would be pretty easy to fix/improve ^^

A lot of applications allow you to provide a path via Env-Vars and I got rid of about 20 dot files/directories ...

Thanks for your replies and sad to see that MakeMKV does not support such a simple thing.

I've opted for creating the wrapper script ~/.local/bin/makemkv and override $HOME in there. That way, my desktop shortcut etc. also works properly.


#!/bin/sh
export HOME="${XDG_STATE_HOME:-$HOME/.local ...

Hi folks,

I am trying to clean up my user home directory on my Linux system.

And I am simply trying to change the location MakeMKV uses instead of ~/.MakeMKV/ as my user home is full of files that simply do not belong there, including the directory by MakeMKV.

I can see in the MakeMKV settings ...