Help with using TABBY_CONFIG_DIRECTORY environment variable.

[timkinnane]

Hi I'm trying to follow the steps described in this issue comment to add a Tabby config.yaml to my Mac dotfiles, like $HOME/.tabby/config.yaml.

I would like to follow first option to "set this environment variable on the operating system level according to your specific operating system".

I have tried exporting the variable in my user shell profile ~/.zshrc like export TABBY_CONFIG_DIRECTORY=$HOME/.tabby but it isn't getting picked up by the Tabby client, it still loads config from the default path $HOME/Library/Application Support/tabby/config.yaml. I also tried setting it in ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile.

I'd like to avoid using the .env file in the Tabby install path, because I'm trying to get a setup I can reproduce on concurrent installs, i.e. something static I can commit to my dotfiles repo and pull down on new machines or after formatting.

Here's the config reading code for reference: https://github.com/Eugeny/tabby/blob/master/app/lib/config.ts

[Eugeny]

IIRC profile files only apply to interactive shells. Try this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/135688/setting-environment-variables-on-os-x , but first confirm it works the way you expect it to by directly running TABBY_CONFIG_DIRECTORY=$HOME/.tabby /Applications/Tabby.app/Contents/MacOS/Tabby

[timkinnane]

Thanks Eugeny. I tried a couple of approaches from that article:

• Adding setenv TABBY_CONFIG_DIRECTORY ~/tabby to /etc/launchd.conf
• Calling launchctl setenv TABBY_CONFIG_DIRECTORY ~/tabby-test

Those both kind of work (had some strange behaviour but I don't know if it's related). In any case they aren't the kind of solution I was looking for re static definitions I can commit to a dotfiles repo.

I ended up using stow to symlink the default config path into my dotfiles:

stow -v -t "$HOME/Library/Application Support" -d $DOTFILES -S tabby

Thanks for the support.