Re: [orca-list] Default location of settings/preferences

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Ubuntu patches Orca to store its settings in gsettings which is a desktop system to store settings for 
multiple applications used by many applications in Gnome and other desktop environments. According to the 
patch, there is no migration between the normal file based method of saving settings with Orca master and 
Ubuntu's gsettings patched version. If you want settings that you can copy around, I would suggest you build 
orca master and run that. I am sorry that this doesn't help with settings that you have already customized 
that will remain in gsettings.
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019, at 3:16 PM, Didier Spaier wrote:
> Hello Alynne,
>
> Here at least (not running Ubuntu) they are stored in:
> ~/.local/share/orca/user-settings.conf
>
> Best regards,
>
> Didier
>
> TIP: to check, open a terminal, then change some orca setting and in the
> terminal type:
> find ~ -mmin -2
> This will list the files in ~ and its sub-directories that have been
> modified since 2 minutes.
>
> On 29/08/2019 21:00, Alynne Keith via orca-list wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm a Ubuntu user trying to locate where the changes made to Orca settings via the Screen Reader 
> > Preferences GUI are saved. I've found reference to `~/.local/share/orca/user-settings.conf` as well as a 
> > Ubuntu downstream gsettings schema, but have been unable to find anything in either of those locations 
> > after searching extensively and monitoring for recent changes. My preferences do persist between 
> > sessions, I just can't for the life of my locate them. I'm aware I can use the user-prefs-dir option to 
> > manually set this, but I am hoping to find the default location.
> >
> > Best,
> >   Alynne
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