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Elad Weiss
Elad Weiss

Reputation: 4002

Where is a good place to save app configurations on Linux

I am writing an application, which needs to save some settings to be persistent between runs (last opened file, user preferences, etc...). Where is a good place to save it on Linux?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 139

Answers (2)

Grzegorz Żur
Grzegorz Żur

Reputation: 49171

According to the latest convention and XDG standards you should use

${HOME}/.config/your-app-name

which ought to be defined in XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable

If you plan to distribute your application with snap then you will be provided with path inside ${HOME}/snap with SNAP_USER_DATA environment value.

Upvotes: 3

Robby Cornelissen
Robby Cornelissen

Reputation: 97130

Depends how you define good, but how about:

${HOME}/.your-app-name

Checking my own home folder, that seems what the likes of Atom, Gimp, Mozilla, SSH, Vim, etc. are doing.

Upvotes: 2

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