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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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1P_Phil
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3 months ago

Hi ragectl​ ,

Thanks for bumping this. I'll re-share this with the team. 

Just to confirm, you are looking for a way to personalize the "~/.1password/" directory location from "~" to potentially the env's $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR or elsewhere.

Let me know if I got that wrong.

Cheers,
Phil & Team

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gravityfargo
New Contributor
27 days ago

I'm pretty sure he wants to move the socket path from

SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/home/username/.1password/agent.sock

to

SSH_AUTH_SOCK="${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/1Password-ssh-agent.sock"

or some other location. Using the XDG directories is less of a "personalization" and more of a standardization for systems that use the https://specifications.freedesktop.org/ Specification  it has the added benefit of keeping a users home directory more organized. A bunch of `.someapplication` directories in my ~/ bugs me.