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@@ -102,16 +102,21 @@ Check [Config file content](#config-file-content) for details. On non-Windows systems `lsd` follows the [XDG Base Directory Specification](https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html) -convention for the location of the configuration file. The configuration dir -`lsd` uses is itself named `lsd`. In that directory it looks first for a file -called `config.yaml`. -For most people it should be enough to put their config file at -`~/.config/lsd/config.yaml`. +convention for the location of the configuration file. A `config.yaml` or `config.yml` file will be searched for in these locations, in order: + +- `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/lsd` +- `$HOME/.config/lsd` + +On most systems these are mapped to the same location, which is `~/.config/lsd/config.yaml`. ### Windows -On Windows systems `lsd` only looks for the `config.yaml` files in one location: -`%APPDATA%\lsd\` +On Windows systems `lsd` searches for `config.yaml` or `config.yml` in the following locations, in order: + +- `%APPDATA%\lsd` +- `%USERPROFILE%\.config\lsd` + +These are usually something like `C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\lsd\config.yaml` and `C:\Users\username\.config\lsd\config.yaml` respectively. ### Custom |