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| @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ _presenterm_ allows you to customize its behavior via a configuration file. This | |||
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| * `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/presenterm/` if that environment variable is defined, otherwise: | |||
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Did you try setting XDG_CONFIG_HOME like the docs specify? Is that not an option?
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I ended up exporting the var from my shell rc to pretend to be Linux, but it was not intuitive as other tools simply look for their config in ~/.config.
The aim of this PR is to reduce friction with a pragmatic approach / sensible default.
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Many tools follow the
XDG_CONFIGconvention unofficially on mac, it would be sensible to do the same forpresenterm.btw loading from
~/Library/Application Support/presenterm/did not work for me, and I got around it by exporting anXDG_CONFIGvar for now.