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Sudo doesnt retain settings of ~/.config (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 weeks ago by clot27@lemm.ee to c/nix@programming.dev
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Whenever I run any command line tools without sudo, they take the settings as in ~/.config and work fine. But whenever I run the same CLI tools with same parameters but with sudo, it falls back to default setting. How can I make this behavior consistent?

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[–] JohnnyMac@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

A lot of times sudo -E will solve these types of issues because it preserves current environments variables. Honestly it might be all that's needed to fix your current issue, because XDG_CONFIG_HOME is probably what the app is looking for, which will get passed with -E without all the extra stuff in my first response.