Username in config files

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Mon Jun 4 16:42:58 CEST 2012


On lun., 2012-06-04 at 14:02 +0200, Hungerburg wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I renamed a user on my system and found the home directory path 
> hardcoded in config files:
> 
> > .config/orage/oragerc:Archive file=/home/USER/.local/share/orage/orage_archive.ics
> > .config/orage/oragerc:Orage file=/home/USER/.local/share/orage/orage.ics
> > .config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml:      <property name="base-directory" type="string" value="/home/USER"/>
> 
> Best practice was to write "~/" there, wasnt it?

~ is a shell alias, that won't really work outside.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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