(Yesterday, 09:38 PM)programmer_ceds Wrote: When I run GIMP it does create the folder /home/richard/.var/app/org.gimp.GIMP/config/GIMP but it is empty.
Am I missing the obvious? Can somebody else using Linux see what folder is shown on their system please?
Used to be, and it might still be the case.
Install a new Gimp, say Gimp 3 when an existing Gimp 2.10 is already installed and Gimp tries to migrate some settings to the Gimp 3.0 user profile. This has the effect of making a flatpak install a User profile folder ~/.var/app/org.gimp.GIMP/config/GIMP that is empty.
You could try: rename the existing Gimp user profiles ~/.config/GIMP/ to ~/.config/GIMP/backup Then delete the flatpak User profile ~/.var/app/org.gimp.GIMP/config/GIMP
Start the flatpak Gimp 3.0 and (hopefully) it creates a new default User profile populated with all the required files and folders. Then you can undo ~/.config/GIMP/backup
I have not done this recently, but the most you can lose is a bit of your time.
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Edit: Do not bother, just tried with a Mint 21 (VM) with an existing Gimp 2.10 and now a Gimp 3.0.2 flatpak. Stubbornly refuses to populate the .var folder but does create a full ~/.config/GIMP/3.0 folder as you found.
A bit strange, going through Edit -> Preferences -> Folders only the .var paths show and you can get to a non-existent folder from there.
You could copy the whole of ~/.config/GIMP replacing the empty ~/.var/app/org.gimp.GIMP/config/GIMP
Looks like a bug with the whole flatpak .var philosophy
A practical alternative, make your own easy to find Gimp3 folder for resources and add the path(s) in Edit -> Preferences -> Folders as required. or go through the whole of the entries fixing the paths.