Re: [gedit-list] Transferring gedit settings to another user profile

[Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org>]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 01:47:44PM +0000, Mark Ballard wrote:
> How do you transfer gedit settings and plugins from an old machine?
>
> I just tried the obvious thing:
>
> I copied the gedit folder in /home/username/.config/ from the old machine
> to the same place on the new machine.
>
> But this didn't work. gedit doesn't recognize my preferences.
>
> How should this be done?

What I do is to have a separate partition for /home and I copy it when
changing the hard disk (I always have a recent backup anyway).

Otherwise you need to copy ~/.config/, ~/.local/share/, and copy the
directory or file where the dconf values are stored.

The settings are stored with GSettings, usually with the dconf backend
on GNU/Linux.

Hope that helps,
Sébastien