On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Sebastian Schwarz <seschwar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 ah nice, i think both actually came up in the thread. i'll check this out and see if they do what i want. thanks, C Anthony