Hi All,
I’m looking to move all my user data, config’s, and profiles (for KMail, Konsole, LibreOffice, Calibre, Zim, ...) from my old machine to the new machine.
Old: Ubuntu 14.04 New: MX-18
I tried a wholesale replacement of the entire user-dir, which did not go well... Too many non-TDE menu differences, the entire TDE menu disappeared, and the only applet left in the Panel was the quick launcher. So, I’m going for the move ‘just the guts’ approach...
I can track down all the somewhat random application dirs like ~/.gimp and “~/Calibre Library” as well as the regular Documents/Download type dirs.
But, will any of TDE’s desktop configuration type files[1] be overwritten by replacing these directories wholesale from the old system?
~/.trinity/share ~/.local/share ~/.config ~/.kde/share [2]
Are there any other directories that have user type information that I’m missing? And, are there any directories that need to be excluded (as it’d break the new system’s TDE if overwritten)?
Thanks, Michael
[1] Things like menus, panels, and desktop settings files.
[2] Oddly ~/.kde has recently written to files in it, who knew stuff is still being stuck there... I don’t have KDE installed, and have only booted TDE for at least the last 3 years; all these (and probably a few more) have been modified in the last month:
.kde/share/config/kfilemodulerc .kde/share/config/kdeglobals .kde/share/config/startkdeinitlockrc .kde/share/apps/RecentDocuments/
On Monday 15 April 2019 05.00:59 Michael wrote:
But, will any of TDE’s desktop configuration type files[1] be overwritten by replacing these directories wholesale from the old system?
~/.trinity/share ~/.local/share ~/.config ~/.kde/share [2]
As far as I could find out, most if not all of Trinity's "stuff" is in ~/.trinity.
~/.kde should not be related to Trinity any more
I usually make a copy of the new ~/.trinity, then copy from ./trinity/share/apps and ~/.trinity/share/config only what I know to need (usually kmail, tdeabc, kate, kicker) and finish the setup by hand...
The problem seems to be that details of the Trinity install are different between distributions, and Ubuntu and MX-18 are quite different (I gave up on both and went back to Debian).
Thierry
On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 22:00:59 -0500 Michael mb_trinity_desktop@inet-design.com wrote:
But, will any of TDE’s desktop configuration type files[1] be overwritten by replacing these directories wholesale from the old system?
~/.trinity/share
Desktop settings files (twinrc, kickerrc, etc.) are all jumbled together with everything else in .trinity/share/config/, so yes, some settings will be squashed if you overwrite blindly.
E. Liddell
Am Montag, 15. April 2019 schrieb Michael:
But, will any of TDE’s desktop configuration type files[1] be overwritten by replacing these directories wholesale from the old system?
~/.trinity/share ~/.local/share ~/.config
I also need these files to restore my TDE desktop with a backup (but these shouldn't affect menus etc -- only the appearance of fonts and colours -- however, there's info about the number and names of the workspaces in .qtrc):
~/.fonts.conf ~/.qt/qtrc ~/.qt/tdestylerc ~/.qt/tqtrc ~/.tderc
AFAIK the (standard) desktop configuration is read from /opt/trinity/share/* and settings changed by the user from $HOME.
HTH
Kind regards, Stefan
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