Where'd my dot files go?

[majik]

victim of the recent AMD APU freezing problem which caused me to do some OS installs … so it might be possible i deleted these files or unintentionally moved them to my ‘restore’ directory (i have them there, but not sure if they’re the right ones)

in /home i didn’t have any dot files after the latest install, not even a .bashrc (i copied one from /root) - that’s not normal, is it?

i poked round in the ISO and saw that /home in the desktopfs.sfs is empty, yet i clearly recall having several dot files in /home after a previous install

/root has these…

.bash_history
.bash_logout
.bash_profile
.bashrc
.dir_colors
.screenrc
.Xclients
.xinitrc
.zshrc

i had none

[cscs]

@majik

.bash_history
.bash_logout
.bash_profile
.bashrc

These wouldnt be needed if your system is using zsh, which is default on most manjaro editions.

@majik

.Xclients
.xinitrc

These wouldnt be needed on wayland.

@majik

.screenrc

This appears to be related to the screen package?
I dont have either the package or the file.

@majik

i had none

Are you sure there are none?
Or are hidden files just not visible?

Maybe use the terminal and execute

ls -a

which would show all files, even hidden.

PS

@majik

in /home i didn’t have any dot files after the latest install, not even a .bashrc (i copied one from /root) - that’s not normal, is it?

Its also not the correct approach.
Even if we assume that for whatever reason you needed to copy such files from somewhere …
The place would be /etc/skel/ not /root/ … and copying from root would also likely mean files having permissions incompatible with your $HOME.

[majik]

@cscs

Are you sure there are none?
Or are hidden files just not visible?

oh jeeze!

did something new; i config’d dolphin to show/hide hidden files by dbbl clicking in an empty area

thanks for the /etc/skel tip - they are owned by root as well, but that’s no problem … and no, i don’t use zsh (i use shellcheck when i write scripts and it doesn’t (entirely) do zsh)