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Former Member
4 years ago

[Linux] Use $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR instead of $HOME/.1password?

I like to try (although not very successfully) to keep my home directory clean of unnecessary dotfiles. While this is a very cool feature, I think it makes more sense to keep the socket in $XDG_RUNT...
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Former Member
4 years ago

Quick follow up, I just tried it myself (by symlinking $HOME/.1password/agent.sock -> $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/1password-ssh-agent.sock and updating my SSH config file to


Host *
IdentityAgent ${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/1password-ssh-agent.sock

and it still works fine. The 1Password app actually already has a socket in there (1Password-BrowserSupport.sock), so it doesn't seem like a stretch to add another.