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Shameless flex
I regret checking this
Whoa I’m a stickler for getting as much as I can out but even I have .zshenv and some other too hard to figure out things in there. How’d you manage a total wipeout?
zsh is actually easy and it is detailed in the archwiki
You have to set
$ZDOTDIR
in/etc/zsh/zshenv
and iirc that was the only location that required root to edit.For the rest of stuff, here is how I fix steam for example and you can check the rest of my dotfiles for how I configured zsh and all of that.
Although I haven't updated them, I still had a
.local
directory back then, it was 1 week ago that I changed.local
forLocal
and that let to an issue with distrobox which I made a PR fixing it that's still open though.That’s awesome!
This is probably a dumb question, but what program is that?
Looks like thunar (default file manager on xfce)
thunar (and the smaller window is the xfce4-terminal).
Lol, the minimalist window decoration had me thinking you were running a terminal inside of the home directory of your file manager. :D
I've seen weirder things.
Honestly, that's what I thought too, and wanted to check that out
ls Volatile
It's empty lol, it's a directory on tmpfs that i use to build programs and similar stuff to not be hammering my ssd with unnecessary writes.
I have
$XDG_CACHE_HOME
in tmp as well and I moved the mesa sharer caches to$XDG_STATE_HOME
as that's really the only thing so far I've needed to preserve.Sounds useful. How did you setup the directory?
Running
df
tells me "tmpfs" is mounted on /run. If I build in that that directory then would it be stored in RAM, or do I need to do something else?I have /tmp in my fstab with these mount options.
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,noatime,size=20G 0 0
And the rest of the setup is done in my zprofile
I think I should be able to get this working following your zprofile file. Thanks!