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Sudo doesnt retain settings of ~/.config (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/nix
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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours 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.