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

[Alynne Keith <alynnekeith gmail com>]

I got as far as dconf myself but was unable to make sense of the format. This is indeed very helpful, thank you.

On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 1:31 AM Frans-Willem Post via orca-list <orca-list gnome org> wrote:

Running Ubuntu, I have long since searched for a feature to simply edit
and copy/backup my settings. I finally found this command:

dconf dump /org/gnome/orca/ > my-orca-settings.ini;

It dumps the current settings into an ini-style file in the current
directory. This can be edited and then re-imported using these commands
(turn Orca off, first):

dconf reset -f /org/gnome/orca/;
dconf load /org/gnome/orca/ < my-orca-settings.ini;

Hope this helps,

FWieP

On 30-08-19 06:54, am_dxer--- via orca-list wrote:
> 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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