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falloftroy

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Registered: 2024-02-19

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Using separate configs for the same user

Hello. Is it possible to use separate configs for different graphical sessions/DEs, but for the same user? What I mean is: is it possible to have separate themes, icons, and terminal settings for two separate DEs under the same user? Logically, the creation of two config directories requires the creation of a new user, but is there a way without doing that?

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,320

Re: Using separate configs for the same user

You might use soft links.   Move your ~/.config to a different name.  Use ln -s to link ~.config to that directory.
Create a new configuration directory.  Remove the softlink .config and recreate it to point at the new directory.

It might work.  YMMV.
Try that as an experiment.  If it works, you might want to do that with specific sub-directories of .config so that you don't need to maintain different configs for every program on your system.

The next task would be to automate all that at login time.

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