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We Linux users suffer it. Supposedly, nowadays applications should store their files under ~/.config, ~/.local and ~/.cache, but you still find a million applications that create their own folders without following any standards. But at least file browsers hide those folders by default...


I'd have thought you could easily enable some fs-jail that maps any-and-every request matching /~/..+/i wherever you want?


I had never heard of it. Maybe it is possible, but I am too lazy to try it...


Do you have a link to documentation for that?


It's in the XDG Base Directory Specification [0] maintained by freedesktop.org [1] (formerly X Desktop Group)

0: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedesktop.org




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