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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den tir. 24. apr. 2018 00.23 skrev Eeli Kaikkonen <eeli.kaikkonen@xxxxxxxxx
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> 2018-04-24 1:12 GMT+03:00 Seth Hillbrand <seth.hillbrand@xxxxxxxxx>:
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>> 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?
>>
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> No, unless you set it so that it's used everywhere. On Linux (or *nix) you
> can set it for one program instance only, just type in the bash shell:
>
> XDG_CONFIG_HOME="/my/dir" kicad
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> and kicad will be run once with this env variable. You can for example ($
> is the prompt):
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> $ XDG_CONFIG_HOME="/my/dir" kicad &
> $ kicad
>
> and two instances with two different XDG_CONFIG_HOME values are started. I
> presume it works similarly on Windows. After some googling I found this:
> https://netlicensing.io/blog/2012/06/15/set-environment-variables-in-windows-shortcut/,
> which might be useful for more permanent and less hassle-free style to
> start a program with customized variable. I have to test it on Windows
> later.
>

How is this any different for what Ibsaid earlier?



> Eeli Kaikkonen
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