Estinos, (edited ) Obligatory mention for those who don't know yet : you can find what files a program use by using
strace <command>
(provided strace is installed). It actually logs all syscalls made by the program, so there will be a lot of noise, but in there you will find theaccess()
andopen()
calls.Additionally, if you want to strace programs that already are running in a convenient interface,
htop
has strace support (this is less useful to find configuration files, as those are usually read at the start of the program, but if you can trigger a save to the file, it will appear here).
CjkOvPDwQW, Never found an app with configuration file that didn’t have that info at the man page …
pkulak, It’s often not up to the app. It can be up to the packager, the distro, or the user if they change the XDG config directory.
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