Save your desktop configuration
- GNOME
- Xfce
- Cinnamon
- Budgie
- COSMIC (Rust and GNOME version)
- Pantheon
- MATE
- KDE Plasma
- Deepin
- Hyprland (logging out of the system doesn't work yet)
- your icons, fonts, and themes
- your settings
- your backgrounds (including dynamic wallpapers, provided that the same username is retained)
- your installed Flatpak apps and their data
- your Desktop folder in the home directory
- other items related to your desktop environment (e.g., Cinnamon extensions and applets, KDE Plasma widgets, GNOME and Nautilus extensions, etc.)
NOTE: It can happen that a backup file will not be created, in that case, just allow access to the folder in the Flatseal app.
Configuration directories that will be included in the archive
- General directories
- ~/.config/dconf
- ~/.local/share/backgrounds
- ~/.themes
- ~/.icons
- ~/.local/share/icons
- ~/.local/share/fonts
- ~/.fonts
- ~/.config/gtk-4.0
- ~/.config/gtk-3.0
- ~/.var/app
- /var/lib/flatpak/app
- GNOME
- ~/.local/share/gnome-background-properties
- ~/.local/share/gnome-shell
- ~/.local/share/nautilus-python
- ~/.local/share/nautilus
- ~/.local/share/gnome-control-center
- Pantheon
- ~/.config/plank
- ~/.config/marlin
- Cinnamon
- ~/.config/nemo
- ~/.local/share/cinnamon
- ~/.cinnamon
- Budgie
- ~/.config/budgie-desktop
- ~/.config/bugie-extras
- ~/.config/nemo
- Cosmic (Old)
- ~/.config/pop-shell
- ~/.local/share/gnome-shell
- Cosmic (New)
- ~/.config/cosmic
- ~/.local/state/cosmic
- Xfce
- ~/.config/xfce4
- ~/.config/Thunar
- ~/.xfce4
- MATE
- ~/.config/caja
- KDE Plasma
- ~/.config/[k]* (all directories and files beginning with k)
- ~/.config/gtkrc
- ~/.config/dolphinrc
- ~/.config/gwenviewrc
- ~/.config/plasmashellrc
- ~/.config/spectaclerc
- ~/.config/plasmarc
- ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc
- ~/.local/share/konsole
- ~/.local/share/dolphin
- ~/.local/share/sddm
- ~/.local/share/wallpapers
- ~/.local/share/plasma-systemmonitor
- ~/.local/share/plasma
- ~/.local/share/aurorae
- ~/.local/share/kscreen
- ~/.local/share/color-schemes
- Deepin
- ~/.config/deepin
- ~/.local/share/deepin
- Hyprland
- ~/.config/hypr
See to the CONTRIBUTING.md for more information.
If you want to help localize SaveDesktop, you can use the Weblate tool (it is possible to register with, e.g., GitHub or Google).
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You can report an issue on GitHub, or if you are not registered on GitHub, you can use this web page. You can also use Github Discussions.
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Flathub
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Snap
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Install on the system (native version)
# Install wget -qO /tmp/savedesktop-native-installer.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vikdevelop/SaveDesktop/main/native/native_installer.py && python3 /tmp/savedesktop-native-installer.py --install # Remove wget -qO /tmp/savedesktop-native-installer.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vikdevelop/SaveDesktop/main/native/native_installer.py && python3 /tmp/savedesktop-native-installer.py --remove
If you want to help with the testing of the future releases of this app, you can use one of these options:
Add the Flathub Beta repository to your system:
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub-beta https://flathub.org/beta-repo/flathub-beta.flatpakrepo
Install the SaveDesktop Beta from this repository:
flatpak install flathub-beta io.github.vikdevelop.SaveDesktop
To install the SaveDesktop Beta, run the following command:
snap install savedesktop --beta
Before building this app using Flatpak Builder, ensure if you have installed org.gnome.Sdk runtime. If not, use this command: flatpak install org.gnome.Sdk//47
Then, you can continue in building this app using Flatpak Builder by entering this command:
git clone https://github.com/vikdevelop/SaveDesktop && cd SaveDesktop && flatpak-builder build *.yaml --install --user
