Greetings! My name is Peter Clark, and I have been using Linux as my primary OS for more than two years now. I'm currently running Mandrake 7.2, but really don't like its feel. I basically got it for KDE 2.0. :) Once Progeny is released, I might try that. Anyways, I have a question that has vexed me for some time now, but have not found the answer. Namely, is there anyway to prevent dotfiles from taking over my home directory? In the past, my solution has been to recompile the source code so that the dotfiles point to ~/.dotfiles/, but this is not always convinient. Is there any program or daemon that sits in the background, waiting to redirect calls for dotfiles from home to a directory of my choice? Obviously, I don't want to redirect _everything_ from my home directory, otherwise, it is useless. I just want to have a convinient directory that stores all those dotfiles, so that every time I view my home directory (`ls` is aliased to `ls -la` of course) I don't have to view pages of rc files, kde and gnome prefs, etc. Any hints, comments, or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! :Peter __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/