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[Seth Hillbrand <seth.hillbrand@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm a bit late to this conversation so forgive the basic question.

Won't this break things for users that explicitly set XDG_CONFIG_HOME for
other reasons?

-S

2018-04-23 14:29 GMT-07:00 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>:
>
>>
>>
>> 2018-04-23 20:10 GMT+03:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>>> Attached is a patch that allows users to have multiple configuration
>>> paths using the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable on all platforms.
>>>
>>
>>  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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