appimage - is it possible to make the app use a different path for user profile
by Grobe from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6JRTX)
In particular I'm thinking about Inkscape.
I'm using Fedora 39 Cinnamon and have Inkscape 1.3.2 (latest stable as per feb. 2024) installed by flatpak.
However, I also have the appimage version of Inkscape 1.1.2 - fallback if it turns out the latest version get unstable for my projects.
However - there is a caveat. Both the flatpak version and the appimage version points to the same config file:
/home/grobe/.config/inkscape/preferences.xml
and thus each Inkscape version can potentially make a mess for the other version because pointing to same setting file.
I can probably partially solve the issue by using a bash script and use the export command to tell Inkscape to use another folder for /home. However this will probably cause problems when trying to open files that is located inside the actual /home directory - haven't tested this.
I do not want to solve this by having a script file that temporarily rename the config/inkscape folder for the session, because it still have a potential for causing mess if I'm unfortuately happens to open the other version of Inkscape while still running.
Any ideas? Some features of appimages that I haven't taught about yet ?
I'm using Fedora 39 Cinnamon and have Inkscape 1.3.2 (latest stable as per feb. 2024) installed by flatpak.
However, I also have the appimage version of Inkscape 1.1.2 - fallback if it turns out the latest version get unstable for my projects.
However - there is a caveat. Both the flatpak version and the appimage version points to the same config file:
/home/grobe/.config/inkscape/preferences.xml
and thus each Inkscape version can potentially make a mess for the other version because pointing to same setting file.
I can probably partially solve the issue by using a bash script and use the export command to tell Inkscape to use another folder for /home. However this will probably cause problems when trying to open files that is located inside the actual /home directory - haven't tested this.
I do not want to solve this by having a script file that temporarily rename the config/inkscape folder for the session, because it still have a potential for causing mess if I'm unfortuately happens to open the other version of Inkscape while still running.
Any ideas? Some features of appimages that I haven't taught about yet ?