Disable unix-channels.toml

[vgalovic]

Hello,

I installed television on my Linux computer, and I configured it with my own channels files. However, I don't like the unix-channels.toml channels since I don't use most of them, and I would prefer that my-dotfiles point to my own dotfiles rather than .config. Is it possible to turn off unix-channels.toml?

[baldwindavid]

I don't know about turning off channels, but you can overwrite a channel by adding a channel with the same name in your custom channels files. For example, my dotfiles are overwritten as...

[[cable_channel]]
name = "my-dotfiles"
source_command = 'fd -t f . $HOME/dotfiles'
preview_command = ':files:'

[alexpasmantier]

There currently isn't any way to turn off the unix channel although that may become a feature if it turns out not to be a good enough tradeoff for most people.

You can still overwrite cable channels by name in your configuration folder if some don't suit your need as @baldwindavid mentioned above.

[alexpasmantier]

I ended up agreeing this wasn't the best user experience and merged a PR: #213

TV will now check when loading cable channels if you have defined any, and will create unix-channels.toml inside your configuration dir if you haven't.
You're then free to modify these, delete the file entirely and use your own cable files and so on.