On 09/01/13 16:12, Michael Natterer wrote: > On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 14:57 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: >> Assuming one starts gimp with no user-specific gimprc, >> is there a way to dump out all the default values? > > gimp --dump-gimprc
ok that yields (temp-path "${gimp_dir}/tmp") (swap-path "${gimp_dir}") >> I'm asking because the default gimprc has everything commented out, >> and there's no GIMP2_DIRECTORY or gimp_dir defined in my environment. > > The default directories depend on the platform, and/or on the > compile time prefix. You should use gimptool to figure these, > the internal logic used is the same. Try gimptool --help. I don't see anything there that indicates it is gimp_dir, and none of the values are the ones set by default, which in my case is ~/.gimp-2.8. All of the directory options are for source info (such as libdir, prefix, execprefix, mandir, etc., and all of the values are in non-user-writeable directories. My system-wide (freebsd) default gimprc, /usr/local/etc/gimp/2.2/gimprc, has the following (commented-out) lines: (temp-path "${gimp_dir}/tmp") (swap-path "${gimp_dir}") If I look at Preferences/Folders, I see Temporary folder: tmp Swap folder: .gimp-2.8 If I open a 10,000 x 3,000 .xcf which is 128MB, with the tile cache size set to 16MB, I see a new file ~/.gimp-2.8/gimpswap.6637, and nothing in ~/tmp. I don't know what will cause something to be written to temp space, but apparently gimp_dir is set to ~/.gimp-2.8 by default on fbsd. It is particularly confusing because the "tmp" entry, when seen in the UI, *looks*, because of the missing prefix path components, like it would be /tmp or ~/tmp, but in fact is not. Thanks for the pointers. Gary _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list