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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just open a terminal and "set" it as you you do on linux, where you would
"export" it.

Den man. 23. apr. 2018 23.27 skrev Eeli Kaikkonen <eeli.kaikkonen@xxxxxxxxx
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> 2018-04-23 20:10 GMT+03:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
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>> Attached is a patch that allows users to have multiple configuration
>> paths using the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable on all platforms.
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>
>  This will be appreciated amongst the users.
>
> It seems to work on Ubuntu. I applied the patch, compiled and installed. I
> made a new dir, set the variable and started kicad with it. It opened as
> for the first time and populated the new dir with some conf files and dirs.
> Started again without the variable it opened with the old config.
>
> There's still one question: how to use it on Windows? I think many Windows
> users don't know how to use env variables, and I don't know how I would
> easily set one for only one application instance. It's useless if added
> globally, right? Can someone give instructions? I would give them to the
> forum readers, there have been much need for this.
>
> Eeli Kaikkonen
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