topic Re: Script to backup ALL Gnome Settings in Operating System - Linux

Script to backup ALL Gnome Settings

'chris' — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:57:12 GMT

hi

I'm looking for script to backup ALL Gnome Settings like icons, menus, themes etc.

Re: Script to backup ALL Gnome Settings

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:09:44 GMT

Shalom,

Couple suggestions:
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/01/script-to-backup-and-restore-gnome.html

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/coffee-lounge/137727-yourgnome-backup-all-your-gnome-things.html

It really would help if you told us what distribution and version of Linux you use.

My brain is to full to remember that.

SEP

Re: Script to backup ALL Gnome Settings

Michal Kapalka (mikap) — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 04:27:13 GMT

hi,

check this link :

http://gnome-backup.sourceforge.net/

mikap

Re: Script to backup ALL Gnome Settings

dirk dierickx — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 05:01:38 GMT

hmm, this is a difficult one because it depends what you mean with 'gnome'. if you're talking about the pure gnome desktop settings, that is not very hard to do, but when including application settings, now that is where things get complicated.

for example, most pure gnome tools save their configuration in the .gnome2 (or some other gnome settings dir). but then programs like pidgin for example, which use gtk and blend in fine with gnome don't use these folders at all. they use their own folder, you can see this when doing a 'ls -a' in your home. most of those hidden dirs are configuration and data directories for some app.

in most cases copying all of those you won't miss anything, ofcourse you'll be taking a long a lot of non-gnome, or even old unused apps data as well.

Re: Script to backup ALL Gnome Settings

'chris' — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:47:42 GMT

Thx, but where exactly is the whole GNOME Menu tree for a user stored?

Re: Script to backup ALL Gnome Settings

dirk dierickx — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:52:40 GMT

as described by the XDG standards, this is located in the ~/.config/menus directory.