The best way to introduce unburden-home-dir in your setup is the following:
Look through /etc/unburden-home-dir.list and either uncomment what
you need globally and/or copy it to either
~/.unburden-home-dir.list or ~/.config/unburden-home-dir/list
and then edit it there for per-user settings.
Check in /etc/unburden-home-dir if the target and file name
template suite your needs. If not either edit the file for global
settings and/or copy it to either ~/.unburden-home-dir or
~/.config/unburden-home-dir/config and then edit it there for
per-user settings.
Make a dry run with
unburden-home-dir -n
to see what unburden-home-dir would do. If you have lsof
installed it should warn you if any of the files are currently in
use.
Check the above steps until you’re satisfied.
Exit all affected applications (guess them if no lsof is
available, fuser may help if available) as opened files which
should be moved can cause unburden-home-dir to fail. (May not be
necessary if the target is on the same file system, but that’s
usually not the case.)
Also exit shells or file browser windows (Nautilus, Konqueror, Caja, etc.) which have any of the to-be-unburdened directories open.
If you use a full featured desktop (GNOME, KDE, Unity,
Enlightenment/E17) including desktop search or similar tools which
have some files in ~/.cache permanently opened (Zeitgeist, gvfs,
etc.) it’s likely the best to logout from your X session and do the
remaining steps in a failsafe session, on the text console or
remotely via SSH.
Run
unburden-home-dir
Start your applications again.
If everything works fine, enable unburden-home-dir permanently,
either per user or globally for all users. See below.
If you want to enable unburden-home-dir for all users of a
machine.on an Xsession based login, edit
/etc/default/unburden-home-dir and either uncomment or add a line
that looks like this:
UNBURDEN_HOME=yes
This will also set $XDG_CACHE_HOME to a subdirectory of
unburden-home-dir’s target directory.
But please be aware that if you do that on a machine with NFS homes, you should do that on all (Unix) machines which have those NFS homes mounted.
For installations where each user should be able to decide on his own
if unburden-home-dir should be run on X session start, add a line
saying
UNBURDEN_HOME=yes
to either ~/.unburden-home-dir or
~/.config/unburden-home-dir/config (create the file if it doesn’t
exist yet) which are sourced by the Xsession startup script in the
same way as /etc/default/unburden-home-dir (while beingq
configuration files for unburden-home-dir itself at the same time,
too).