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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 2015-08-03 18:33, Israel skrev:
> On 08/03/2015 10:20 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>> Den 2015-08-02 23:48, Nio Wiklund skrev:
>>> Den 2015-08-02 23:00, Israel skrev:
>>>> Hi Nio,
>>>> I trust your judgement!
>>>> I just wanted to give my 2 (small unit of money).
>>>> :D
>>>>
>>>> On 08/01/2015 06:25 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>>>>> Hi Israel,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have made a built-in tool to configure the background colours of the
>>>>> final checkpoints (separate for standard installations and iso-testing).
>>>>> The background for iso-testing should be nicer for the eyes, because it
>>>>> is intended to be used often and by experienced users. It is described
>>>>> with screenshots at the following link
>>>>>
>>>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1958073&page=6&p=13331409#post13331409
>>>>>
>>>>> You can download the bleeding edge version from Phill's server directly
>>>>> or with help of *mkusb-installer* and wget. See this link
>>>>>
>>>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/v9#from_phillw.net
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards
>>>>> Nio
>>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>> Hi Israel,
>>>
>>> Those 'two cents', or should we say 'två öre' helped me get started and
>>> make a built-in tool to configure the background colours.
>>>
>>> So I hope everybody can be happy now :-)
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Nio
>> Hi again,
>>
>> I think I understand now - you were telling me so gently, that I did not
>> understand at once. Now I understand that the background colours that
>> you edit via the help menu should be saved in a separate file instead of
>> in-line in the shellscript file. It makes the custom colours survive
>> updates of mkusb.
>>
>> See the following link
>>
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1958073&page=6&p=13332255#post13332255
>>
>> Thanks again :-)
>>
>> Best regards
>> Nio
> awesome!!
> 
> Yes exactly!!
> A more standard configuration way to save the file would be
> ~/.config/.mkusb
> using $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
> 
> look forward to testing it when I have a chance!!
> 

I'm discussing that topic in the link. I'm not quite happy to save the
configuration file to the home directory, because it is owned by root,
because you run mkusb as root

sudo -H mkusb [image-file]

Best regards
Nio