etc/X11/Xresources hardcodes home directory path

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ayekat opened this issue 7 years ago · 2 comments

On line 92:

URxvt.perl-lib       : /home/ayekat/.local/lib/urxvt/perl/

We'll have to see if it is possible to use environment variables there. This is quite a bit annoying if using the dotfiles for some other user.

Answer 1 · 2017-10-03T09:15:50.000Z

It depend on the evacation of xrdb. xrdb use the c prprosesor. So can use c Macros, includes.

Answer 2 · 2017-10-03T20:23:57.000Z

Thanks a lot for the hint! I now use XDG_... environment variables for this.