On 2010-10-14 at 10:57 -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > awhile back, i believe it was on this list, there was some > amessages bout cleaning up the .<files> in your HOME folder... It can be achieved by preloading this library: http://ordiluc.net/fs/libetc/ Since I am not using it I can't tell how well it works. Maybe someone else can. > can someone point me in the right direction here? i swear all > i needed to do was export the proper VARS but i cannot seem to > find the info now. Or do you mean this approach for certain directories: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs