A cross-platform portable setup sharing the same UI customizations accross platforms and machines

[9a3eedi]

Hello,

I'm moving to deadbeef from foobar2000, as I'm constantly switching back and forth between Linux and Windows, but mostly using Linux. My previous setup involved putting a portable installation of foobar2000 on a cloud drive (e.g. Nextcloud) along with all my music. I can then just run the .exe and it'll work well, no matter what computer I'm using. However, this won't work for Linux unless I use wine, which isn't great, so I'm trying to move to deadbeef.

What I'm trying to do is have one UI configuration that stays the same across multiple machines that sync my files with Nextcloud, whether those machines are Linux or Windows. I tried to do the same thing I did with foobar, but with deadbeef, and for both Windows and Linux executables. When I download the stable build .tar.bz2 and extract it, I can run it, but it loads the config from my home directory, not from the local directory. I would imagine that the Windows version is the same.

I've tried to look in the preferences if I can override where the program looks for its configuration, but I couldn't find anything.

A few questions

• Is there a way to force deadbeef to load the configuration from a local directory and a relative path?
• Is this goal of having the same UI configuration in both Windows and Linux using a portable installation impractical or not possible?

Hope this makes sense.

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

I don't see any existing way to do what you want. Please make a feature request.

[9a3eedi]

I think this is actually two feature requests in one:

• Having a portable configuration folder such that the user's home directory is completely unaffected
• Having windows and linux use the same configuration folder (this might work already, but not sure)

But I'll request one thing at a time, so here's my feature request: #3209

Thank you for reading my topic

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

Is there a way to force deadbeef to load the configuration from a local directory and a relative path?

There's a way, but not without setting some environment variables per computer. You can set %APPDATA% on windows and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME on linux to specify configuration directory path, deadbeef would use those. Maybe from a shell script / bat file.

Is this goal of having the same UI configuration in both Windows and Linux using a portable installation impractical or not possible?

Not entirely impossible, but there's no good way at the moment.
There's a way to place config folder in deadbeef directory (next to the exe file) -- this would work too, but this would not let you share configs across windows/linux.

[9a3eedi]

That's a good workaround I can try. I can probably write a batch/powershell + shell script that'll run it. I'll just have to make sure I don't accidently double click the executable. Maybe I'll make it hidden or something.

Will give it a try when I'm back home from work