Your advice, please!
I have Pale Moon running under MATE 17.0. I have just installed Xfce 17.1 under a dual boot system with DATA partitions, but Pale Moon is not yet installed under Xfce.
Is it possible to install Pale Moon so that its data files (website addresses, etc) are shared by both MATE and Xfce? If so, I would be very grateful for instructions.
Sharing Pale Moon Data files [Solved]
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MGA74
Sharing Pale Moon Data files [Solved]
Last edited by MGA74 on 2015-06-06, 18:32, edited 1 time in total.
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squarefractal
Re: Sharing Pale Moon Data files
You do not need to have different OS installs to use different desktop environments. It is possible to install different DEs on the same install and switch to your preferred DE at the time of login.
As far as your question is concerned, it isn't recommended, since the profile path is put into many places in your profile and this can lead to broken functionality.
As far as your question is concerned, it isn't recommended, since the profile path is put into many places in your profile and this can lead to broken functionality.
Re: Sharing Pale Moon Data files
You can specify a profile location by starting Pale Moon with:MGA74 wrote:Is it possible to install Pale Moon so that its data files (website addresses, etc) are shared by both MATE and Xfce? If so, I would be very grateful for instructions.
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[/path/to/]palemoon -p /path/to/profile"Sometimes, the best way to get what you want is to be a good person." -- Louis Rossmann
"Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past; wisdom is of the future." -- Native American proverb
"Linux makes everything difficult." -- Lyceus Anubite
"Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past; wisdom is of the future." -- Native American proverb
"Linux makes everything difficult." -- Lyceus Anubite
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MGA74
Re: Sharing Pale Moon Data files
Thank you for your replies.
Moonchild, could you be more specific, please? Where would I find my profile on my existing installation of Pale Moon? Should I copy it to a location in the (shared) DATA location? Where then do I put your command to start Pale Moon?
Thank you very much for your interest!
Moonchild, could you be more specific, please? Where would I find my profile on my existing installation of Pale Moon? Should I copy it to a location in the (shared) DATA location? Where then do I put your command to start Pale Moon?
Thank you very much for your interest!
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trava90
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Re: Sharing Pale Moon Data files
It is located in ~/.moonchild productions/pale moon (note the spaces).MGA74 wrote:Where would I find my profile on my existing installation of Pale Moon?
Yes.MGA74 wrote:Should I copy it to a location in the (shared) DATA location?
If you used the installer, you can simply type (minus quotes) in your terminal "palemoon -p /path/to/profile".MGA74 wrote:Where then do I put your command to start Pale Moon?
You will need to do that on both of your operating systems and it should work.
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New Tobin Paradigm
Re: Sharing Pale Moon Data files
You could put the data in a central location then symlink to it from the default location as an alt.. You can also use the profile manager to directly tell it where to store the profile.
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MGA74
Re: Sharing Pale Moon Data files [Solved]
A big thank you to trava90 and to Tobin for your help. Your expertise made the difference!
