2026-07-02 Per Container Atuin History

Separating Atuin shell history per Distrobox container By default Atuin keeps a single shell history database in ~/.local/share/atuin, since home directories are shared into every Distrobox container, that means every container is dumping its history into the same database. That’s not great — history from one distrobox ends up mixed in with others. The fix is to give each container its own Atuin data directory, keyed off the container name, while leaving the host with the original untouched database. ...

2026 July 2 · 2 min · Shawn W. Dunn