# Export Budgie Desktop settings to another session?

**URL:** <https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/export-budgie-desktop-settings-to-another-session/3322>\
**Category:** Budgie Desktop\
**Created:** [April 8, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/export-budgie-desktop-settings-to-another-session/3322 "2020-04-08T19:46:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Coeur-Noir](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/coeur-noir/32/4515_2.png) [@Coeur-Noir](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/Coeur-Noir)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/export-budgie-desktop-settings-to-another-session/3322/1 "2020-04-08T19:46:11Z")

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Hi,

I’m rather happy with one session. I’d like to « export » its configuration to other users-sessions.

I mean the Budgie-panels and applets - not necessarily themes and icons.

Looking through ~/.config and other hidden files, I can’t see what to copy-paste…

…maybe not that easy, or another way ( dconf ? )

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/export-budgie-desktop-settings-to-another-session/3322/2 "2020-04-08T21:06:19Z")

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This was a project that was started on the 20.04 cycle but was not finished

It will give you an idea of what to do. If it inspires you, feel free to help out with a patch or two big or small. Thx

> **[UbuntuBudgie/cloud-sync](https://github.com/UbuntuBudgie/cloud-sync/tree/master/budgiebackup)**
>
> sync budgie settings. Contribute to UbuntuBudgie/cloud-sync development by creating an account on GitHub.

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**Author:** ![puffettacicciottella](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/puffettacicciottella/32/4525_2.png) [@puffettacicciottella](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/puffettacicciottella)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 1:46pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/export-budgie-desktop-settings-to-another-session/3322/3 "2020-04-09T13:46:01Z")

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Hi,  
Usually I do this way: dump dconf configurations that I want to export, eg:

```
dconf dump /org/ubuntubudgie/plugins/budgie-showtime/ > showTime.dconf

```

and load it by the means of a script like

```
dconf load /org/ubuntubudgie/plugins/budgie-showtime/ < showTime.dconf

```

Otherwise is possible to save and replace .config/dconf/user from one user to another but doing that in chroot when building my customized iso not always works (and don’t ask me why 😉 )

Sil

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**Author:** ![Coeur-Noir](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/coeur-noir/32/4515_2.png) [@Coeur-Noir](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/Coeur-Noir)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/export-budgie-desktop-settings-to-another-session/3322/4 "2020-04-09T15:40:29Z")

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Indeed !

I did a dump dconf like this :

```auto
dconf dump /com/solus-project/ > /home/other_user/Bureau/budgie-dconf-dump

```

and then load in the other session with

```auto
dconf load /com/solus-project/ < ~/Bureau/budgie-dconf-dump

```

I just had to tweak a bit some applets settings, showtime and pixel-saver if i remind correctly.  
…which sounds logical since those are not stored in dconf com.solus-project but in org.ubuntubudgie if I understand right.

This helped me [Cloud sync all budgie-settings / backup & restore](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/cloud-sync-all-budgie-settings-backup-restore/2296/21)

Thanks a lot @fossfreedom and @puffettacicciottella

Next time I’ll also dump

```auto
dconf dump /org/ubuntubudgie/ > /home/other_user/Bureau/ubuntubudgie-dconf-dump

```

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**Author:** ![puffettacicciottella](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/puffettacicciottella/32/4525_2.png) [@puffettacicciottella](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/puffettacicciottella)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/export-budgie-desktop-settings-to-another-session/3322/5 "2020-04-15T15:57:23Z")

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> [@Coeur-Noir](#):
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> Thanks a lot @fossfreedom and @puffettacicciottella

pas de quoi; on s’aide, n’est-ce pas? 😁

Sylviette

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**Author:** ![k4100x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@k4100x](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/k4100x)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 7:28pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/export-budgie-desktop-settings-to-another-session/3322/6 "2024-05-10T19:28:58Z")

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Thank you all for this discussion. Good to learn about this! I’m thinking of redoing my partition setup, so this would save me a little time post-install.

In my case I’m doing both of these, then backing up the dump files for later import using “dconf load”:

dconf dump /org/ubuntubudgie/ \> budgie-dconf-dump  
dconf dump /com/solus-project/ \> solus-dconf-dump