# User .config files

**URL:** <https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/user-config-files/6858>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [September 3, 2023, 3:30pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/user-config-files/6858 "2023-09-03T15:30:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![makitso](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/makitso/32/4961_2.png) [@makitso](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/makitso)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2023, 3:30pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/user-config-files/6858/1 "2023-09-03T15:30:33Z")

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Where are all the local conf for a user stored, things like dconf changes, budgie settings, etc?

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**Author:** ![aandmsantos0910](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/aandmsantos0910/32/3764_2.png) [@aandmsantos0910](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/aandmsantos0910)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2023, 6:13am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/user-config-files/6858/2 "2023-09-04T06:13:04Z")

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For most items they will be stored here: `/home/your-user-name/.config`

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/ubuntubudgie/original/2X/4/4f942f3844ad38c17f6180fefea8ba65087f5e26.png)

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**Author:** ![makitso](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/makitso/32/4961_2.png) [@makitso](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/makitso)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 11:20am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/user-config-files/6858/3 "2023-09-19T11:20:59Z")

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For specific reasons I needed to “again” restore my /home folder. However, regardless, how I backup/restore my home folder things are not right. Specifically, the budgie top panel settings are lost as well as the dconf editor settings.

I have tried rsync, cp and luckybackup and nothing seems to work. So, let me ask again:  
Where are the budgie desktop top panel settings stored and where are gsettings saved?

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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:** [September 19, 2023, 11:31am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/user-config-files/6858/4 "2023-09-19T11:31:35Z")

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> [@Export Budgie Desktop settings to another session?](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/export-budgie-desktop-settings-to-another-session/3322/3):
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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 wink ) Sil

So that post and the post below shows you how to “backup” and “restore” various dconf settings.

So com.solus-project and org.ubuntubudgie are the key organisations for various panel settings

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**Author:** ![makitso](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/makitso/32/4961_2.png) [@makitso](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/makitso)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 4:57pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/user-config-files/6858/5 "2023-09-21T16:57:51Z")

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Well well, that solves the mystery of where the budgie panel settings are. I am a bit surprised that the dconf database is not in user space – which means that I have to keep a backup of it.

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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:** [September 22, 2023, 7:59am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/user-config-files/6858/6 "2023-09-22T07:59:43Z")

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The dconf database is in userspace - just not in a text format - binary ~/.config/dconf/user

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**Author:** ![makitso](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/makitso/32/4961_2.png) [@makitso](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/makitso)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 10:39am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/user-config-files/6858/7 "2023-09-22T10:39:30Z")

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???  
My restore should have worked then. Perhaps this is what happened?

1. Recreate /home
2. Login
3. Do a rsync to restore /home/user folder – which should have replaced the user db.

But, I bet that since I am logged in, there is a memory copy of user and it over rights what I copied in.

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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:** [September 22, 2023, 10:45am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/user-config-files/6858/8 "2023-09-22T10:45:25Z")

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possibly - maybe doing the rsync via a TTY rather than a graphical session would be better - then you wont have the GNOME bits trying to keep the dconf database up-to-date.