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EvanPurkhiser

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[Not Possible] Move ~/.config/Trolltech.conf somewhere else?

Is there an environment variable or something similar I can set to move the QT configuration file? I'd like to move it to `~/.config/QT/Trolltech.conf` (or even better `~/.config/QT/config.conf`)

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Rexilion

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Re: [Not Possible] Move ~/.config/Trolltech.conf somewhere else?

I think it listens to XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, but a lot of programs do. So you would have to use XDG_CONFIG_DIRS pointing to ~/.config/QT/ for each QT app.

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EvanPurkhiser

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Re: [Not Possible] Move ~/.config/Trolltech.conf somewhere else?

You're right it does, I took a look through the source. Looks like it isn't possible without custom patching qt4.

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drcouzelis

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Re: [Not Possible] Move ~/.config/Trolltech.conf somewhere else?

Depending on what your intentions are, another option would be to create a symbolic link:

$ mv ~/.config/Trolltech.conf ~/.config/QT/config.conf
$ ln -s ~/.config/QT/config.conf ~/.config/Trolltech.conf

Of course the original file will still be there in the form of a symbolic link, but if all you want to do is give it a more understandable name then it might help. I myself can never remember that the configuration file for Qt is called "Trolltech.conf".

...By the way, "config.conf" is a terrible name for a file, right up there with "text.txt", "document.doc", and "jpg.jpg".

EvanPurkhiser

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Re: [Not Possible] Move ~/.config/Trolltech.conf somewhere else?

Depending on what your intentions are, another option would be to create a symbolic link:

This is probably what I'll do. It would be nice to get that one dangling file into a directory though. Oh well!

...By the way, "config.conf" is a terrible name for a file, right up there with "text.txt", "document.doc", and "jpg.jpg".

Haha, yeah I realized this half way through typing it out, but it was just sort of an example.

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