When one spend enough time using window managers configuration files can pile up fast… How do you keep them safe?

  • Do you copy to an external drive?
  • Do you upload to a cloud service?
  • Do you have a dedicated git repository?
  • bitwolf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    17 days ago

    Much of them are generated, if you use gnu stow, you can keep the ones you want more easily.

    Then, you can commit the stow directory with git.

      • bitwolf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        17 days ago

        Most applications, if there is not dotfile config in $XDG_HOME/.config or $HOME, will generate dotfiles with sane defaults.

        When I switched distros often it was routine for me to erase the dotfiles specific to say, GNOME or Plasma, as they’d then be restored to default settings.