My dotfiles managed by YADM https://yadm.io/
XDG environement variable should be set.
$ZDOTDIR should be set to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/zsh. I use this /etc/zsh/zshenv to set most of these variables. You can of course adapt it to your needs.
/etc/zsh/zshenv
# NVIDIA wayland EGLstreams
# export KWIN_DRM_USE_EGL_STREAMS=1
# XDG
export XDG_BIN_HOME="${HOME}/.local/bin"
export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="${HOME}/.config"
export XDG_CACHE_HOME="${HOME}/.cache"
export XDG_DATA_HOME="${HOME}/.local/share"
export XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/local/share:/usr/share"
export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS="/etc/xdg"
export XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
export XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
export XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
export XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
export XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
export XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
export XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
export XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"
# Compilation flags
export ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64"
# BASE
export PATH="$XDG_BIN_HOME:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin"
# ZSH
export ZDOTDIR="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/zsh"
export ZSH_COMPDUMP="$XDG_CACHE_HOME/zsh/zcompdump-${HOST}-${ZSH_VERSION}"
export HISTFILE="/tmp/zsh_history"If SDDM is used, change /etc/sddm.conf.d/default.conf
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# ...
UserAuthFile=.cache/Xauthority
# ...
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