Ah, these suggestions are super useful! Thanks! Cheers, Mike
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yep, I would go for the command line args too: > > if you find the bat file which starts qgis and change it to add the > command line args, you start with a qgis which puts all normal settings > and options in a (temp) directory you point to: > > about class room setups: > > http://www.qgis.nl/2014/04/22/qgis-in-de-klas-onder-windows/?lang=en > and > http://planet.qgis.org/planet/user/26/ > > Regards, > > Richard > > On 11-01-16 20:41, Nathan Woodrow wrote: > > Hi, > > > > There is command line args you can use. --optionspath and --settingspath > > which will let you set a folder to write and Save settings to. This is > > what I use when I want a clean QGIS start each time. > > > > Regards, > > Nathan > > > > On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 5:25 am Michael Treglia <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > Thanks Alex, > > > > Good point about Clones of the VM - I hadn't thought about that, and > > didn't realize it only stores the differences against the original - > > that sounds really useful more broadly too. > > > > Thanks! > > mike. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Alex M <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > On 01/11/2016 10:59 AM, Michael Treglia wrote: > > > Hi Everybody, > > > > > > I'm updating some training material I use in a course, and > > want to make > > > sure I'm viewing things as new users with a clean install > > would (while > > > maintaining a copy with everything as I want it configured). > > I've figured > > > out a way to do this, but wanted to see if others have a > > better solution. > > > > > > My method that works just fine (and lets me do screenshots and > > such) is to > > > work on QGIS within a Ubuntu virtual machine, from my host > > Windows pc. > > > > > > It seems like a slightly easier way would be to have a > > separate install of > > > QGIS on Windows - tried that using two different install > > methods on the > > > same user account (OSGeo4W vs Standalone installer), but the > > standalone > > > picked up the settings from my OSGeo install. To work as > > desired, would > > > that have to be done on a separate user account? > > > > > > Thanks for your thoughts - Cheers, > > > mike > > > > > > > > > > +1 Virtual Machine > > It's the only real way to ensure it's 100% separate. You can > > also make > > cheap clones of the VM (only stores the differences), so that > > you always > > have a clean base VM to roll back to. > > > > I suppose you could login to a different windows account and > > that would > > at least not look at your users customization. But I'm not sure > > if all > > other settings would be unique. > > > > Thanks, > > Alex > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Qgis-user mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Qgis-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > > >
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