appimage - is it possible to make the app use a different path for user profile
In particular I'm thinking about Inkscape.
I'm using Fedora 39 Cinnamon and have Inkscape 1.3.2 (latest stable as per feb. 2024) installed by flatpak. However, I also have the appimage version of Inkscape 1.1.2 - fallback if it turns out the latest version get unstable for my projects. However - there is a caveat. Both the flatpak version and the appimage version points to the same config file: /home/grobe/.config/inkscape/preferences.xml and thus each Inkscape version can potentially make a mess for the other version because pointing to same setting file. I can probably partially solve the issue by using a bash script and use the export command to tell Inkscape to use another folder for /home. However this will probably cause problems when trying to open files that is located inside the actual /home directory - haven't tested this. I do not want to solve this by having a script file that temporarily rename the config/inkscape folder for the session, because it still have a potential for causing mess if I'm unfortuately happens to open the other version of Inkscape while still running. Any ideas? Some features of appimages that I haven't taught about yet ? |
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Any other approach not already mention ? I may put a feature request for Inkscape itself so that it will accept a parameter specifying where the settings file are located. But this question is not only related to Inkscape. [edit 1] Seems like this feature is actually added to the windows version: https://alpha.inkscape.org/vectors/f...indexf294.html [edit 2] I found a way of change the config location for Inkscape installed normally - probably works the same for flatpak, but I've only tested on Inkscape that was installed normally from the repository. Without further due, it goes like this: Code:
$ env INKSCAPE_PROFILE_DIR=/home/grobe/Documents/inkscapeTemporarySettings inkscape |
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