Re: Completely seperate garnome settings from gnome?

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

Alexander,

> When I build garnome and run it afterwards, the applications, like
> gedit, will store the settings underneath ~/.gnome2. That's also
> were the "normal" Gnome applications will store stuff.

The GARNOME built applications actually are just as normal as the distro
provided ones. GARNOME is a distribution independent GNOME distribution.
You can use it to have different GNOME versions available, or you can
use it instead of the distro provided one. Other than the fact that it
isn't shipped by your distro, there is no difference.


> Would it somehow be possible to make the Garnome Gnome applications
> store their settings someplace else (like ~/.garnome-2, or what
> ever)? This way, the "normal" Gnome applications would not interfere
> with the Garnome applications, and vice versa.

No, this is not possible.

It would be easier to help you, if we'd know what exactly you want to
accomplish. Seems you want to have them separated for smoke-testing
unstable GNOME versions, while keeping a stable environment, untouched
and untainted. Correct?

At any rate, the best way to do what you asked for is, to use different
users. All settings are stored per user in $HOME.


Apart from the above mentioned ~/.gnome2 dir, there are a bunch of other
important dirs (think storing most user configuration, think GConf) and
per-user daemons (gconfd, gnome-settings-daemon, e-d-s, ...) involved,
which pretty much prevents any attempt to even try making them use a
"different dir"...

HTH

  guenther


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