Hi There - I’m starting to make use of distrobox, but I have a question about creating custom home directories.
In my ~/.config/distrobox/distrobox.conf file, I’ve added a line ->
container_user_custom_home=“$HOME/dbx”
This ensures that all new containers, by default, have their homes set to ~/dbx .
This is good, however, I’m looking for a way to default new container homes to ~/dbx/<<containername>>. Is there a way to do this? I’ve tried setting the line in distrobox.conf to
container_user_custom_home=“$HOME/dbx/$DBX_CONTAINER_NAME” but it doesn’t work. Any help would be appreciated.
(Basically, I want to err on the side of a bit of isolation between containers by default so that I can more easily track what each is doing separately.
Thanks!
I would make a bash function to do this. I’m on my phone so idk how this will look lol
dbxcreate () {
ALL_CONTAINER_HOME=${HOME}/dbx
CONTAINER_NAME="$1"
export DBX_CONTAINER_CUSTOM_HOME="${ALL_CONTAINER_HOME}/${CONTAINER_NAME}"
distrobox create --name "${CONTAINER_NAME}"
}
I would add some checks/more arguments and error messages but thats the idea
You may also have to make that home dir but then its as easy adding a mkdir line
