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Cannot change the location of my INI file - Linux [Solved]

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My system is Linux.

I use the latest version of XnView MP.

I would like to change the location of my INI file.

It is now set to "Program", but I would like to change it to "user".

When I change this setting to "user" and start XnView new, then I have again "program".

Maybe this is, because XnView can not write to "root", where the program is?

So here is my question: How can I change this setting to "user", so that it remains permanent after the restart of Xnview?

Thank you.
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Re: Can not change the location of my INI file

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Above my pay grade, but are you able to launch XnView MP as root from the terminal, for example, and then try again?
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Re: Can not change the location of my INI file

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When I start XnView with sudo and change "program" into "user", press "OK" and restart XnView with sudo, then it's the same.
-> It's "program" again. Very strange.
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Re: Can not change the location of my INI file

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This is what happens, when I start XnView as user in a terminal:
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Message "File not available."

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Another thing is, that I can change things in the GUI, like choose another language (For example change from German into English). Restart XnView and I have again German. I can change other things, but they do not remain after the restart.
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Re: Can not change the location of my INI file

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where is your xnview.ini?
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Re: Can not change the location of my INI file

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One is in

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/home/user/.config/xnviewmp/
and another is in

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/opt/XnView/
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IxenPDF wrote: Sat Sep 04, 2021 2:16 pm

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/opt/XnView/
you need to remove this one, you can't write here
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Re: Can not change the location of my INI file

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Thank you. After having removed the one in opt/XnView now all is again as it should be.
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