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scrawl
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Path changes

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Just a quick heads up for linux users that as of commit https://github.com/zinnschlag/openmw/co ... 69dd90562c OpenMW uses XDG paths.

This means screenshots and OpenCS projects are now in ~/.local/share/openmw instead of ~/.config/openmw.

The paths can now also be overridden using XDG_* environment variables (in our case, XDG_CONFIG_HOME, XDG_CACHE_HOME and XDG_DATA_HOME). A neat use for this: if you quickly want to test a clean OpenMW config, but keep your original config at the same time, then simply do:

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XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/tmp/openmw ./omwlauncher
For more info see the XDG base directory specification.
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Re: Path changes

Post by pvdk »

Great work scrawl! :D
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