[SOLVED] Some help required

WaterRatj · 2009-09-29 14:28:13

I have some questions, if someone has the time and solution to fix it big_smile

1) Is there a way to make it that all the files in my /home/usernamehere directory are located somewere else?
I just don't want all those config files their, cause i don't like all those files and folders, and i don't wanne use hide system files.

Is their anyway to change that?
Maybe make a other user account and make it save all settings in someone elses /home/usernamehere ?

More question when i need them will be addedd later big_smile

Thanks in advance!!!

Last edited by WaterRatj (2009-09-29 23:50:52)

Toolz · 2009-09-29 14:36:03

Not a solution, just for OP:
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … e-posting/

benj1 · 2009-09-29 14:47:36

the only solution i can think of is to manually define all the paths for your app when you launch them, most programs will allow you to do it but will require a lot of modifying of the menu file and aliases etc

anonymous · 2009-09-29 14:59:49

If you don't want the configuration files in your home folder, what do you plan to do with that folder?

It might be easier to leave your home folder as is, and just create a separate folder for your personal files or whatever.

WaterRatj · 2009-09-29 16:51:06

anonymous wrote:

If you don't want the configuration files in your home folder, what do you plan to do with that folder?
It might be easier to leave your home folder as is, and just create a separate folder for your personal files or whatever.

If I make another folder in /home/ will that mess things up?

tartan · 2009-09-29 20:25:01

I guess there is a way to do so, but it would require too much sex with, i dunno, environmental variables or symlinks or something like that and launching apps with options that would force them to use custom config files...

Maybe it would be better to make a separate /home partition and let all config files and browser cache and mail archive stay there, and another one for your multimedia and docs and so on?

Aw. my bad.

No, it would not (answering your last question)

Last edited by tartan (2009-09-29 20:28:00)

benj1 · 2009-09-29 20:38:09

WaterRatj wrote:

anonymous wrote:
If you don't want the configuration files in your home folder, what do you plan to do with that folder?
It might be easier to leave your home folder as is, and just create a separate folder for your personal files or whatever.
If I make another folder in /home/ will that mess things up?

if you move all of your configuration files yes, unless you manually tell each program where to look for them.

eg in you openbox menu.xml instead of <execute>foobar</execute> you would need <execute>foobar -c ~/path/to/rc.conf</execute>

then in your .bashrc (if you dont want to keep typing it all in)
alias foobar='foobar -c ~/path/to/rc.conf'

thats assuming -c is the correct option, check the man pages.

but then after that its still not guaranteed if 'helloworld' calls 'foobar' then youll still have problems

long story short yes, but its probably better if you dont

EDIT
@tartan
"but it would require too much sex with, i dunno, environmental variables or symlinks"
is this a miss translation?
or is that how you spend the long winter nights wink

hmmm might make it my new sig smile

Last edited by benj1 (2009-09-29 20:42:23)

tartan · 2009-09-30 08:56:23

Aw, in Russian we sometimes call the process of tuning up this or that app, daemon or os 'sex', there is a rude form and the one which is less obscene, but after all they both mean the same. Hence 'it would require sex' means 'you would have to change environmental variables, set up symlinks, launch some apps with definite options and set up new paths for them, and no guarantee it would work after all that terminal voodoo.'

Thought there were the same in English, 'cause all that computer slang explanations in encyclopaedia dramatica and in it's Russian counterpart are quite similar.

Last edited by tartan (2009-09-30 08:57:14)

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