rewritefs
A FUSE filesystem intended to be used like Apache mod_rewrite (by sloonz)
rehome
Small C utility to force badly behaved programs to obey XDG Base Directory Specification (by lpar)
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| rewritefs | rehome | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2 | |
| 114 | 24 | |
| - | - | |
| 1.8 | 2.7 | |
| over 2 years ago | 6 months ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
rewritefs
Posts with mentions or reviews of rewritefs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-18.
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Can we fake a specific path for an application ?
I've never used it, but rewritefs may work for this usecase. There is a rewritefs-git package in the AUR.
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xdg-ninja: A tool to help you clean up your $HOME
Some other tools worth mentioning, for programs that don't have a way to respect XDG, are rewritefs and rehome
rehome
Posts with mentions or reviews of rehome.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-13.
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xdg-ninja: A tool to help you clean up your $HOME
Some other tools worth mentioning, for programs that don't have a way to respect XDG, are rewritefs and rehome
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Spring clean your home directory! Or should you? 🌻🧹🤔
rehome : This is a C program that persuades badly-behaved programs to obey the XDG Base Directory Specification. This is done by altering the value of HOME that an app sees when they are executed.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing rewritefs and rehome you can also consider the following projects:
x11docker - Run GUI applications and desktops in docker and podman containers. Focus on security.
alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
linux-fs-interposer - Demonstrate how to interpose specific linux filesystem calls in user mode to implement tracing