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Fedora Atomic variants break recent projects path

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
lua, neovim
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reproducing the dashboard on a Fedora Atomic variant and trace how recent project paths are generated. Compare the project path with the correctly displayed recent-file paths; done means a symlinked home produces /Repos/dwl instead of /var/Repos/dwl and the project remains enterable.

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Description

Describe the bug
Hi, on Fedora Atomic e.g. Silverblue, Kinoite, Sway and Budgie home is symlinked to /var/home and when the dashboard opens there's following output on projects:

Recent Projects:
/var~/Repos/dwl

which of course breaks things so you can't enter the project directory. What's interesting is the recent files have proper names.
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Open neovim on Fedora Atomic variant
  2. See path being wrong in projects

Expected behavior
Path should be ~/Repos/dwl.

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