How to set a path to userdata?

[Marcgal]

Linux here.

Preferences/general/Paths allows me to *view* paths to configuration, user data, saved games, etc.

Though, is it anyhow possible to *set* them?

I’m asking ’cuz I’d like to allow saved games to be shared by different user accounts.

[The_Gnat]

Linux here.

Preferences/general/Paths allows me to *view* paths to configuration, user data, saved games, etc.

Though, is it anyhow possible to *set* them?

I’m asking ’cuz I’d like to allow saved games to be shared by different user accounts.

Unfortunately i believe you only can set the path to save games and other user data on the install of the game.

[Pentarctagon]

There are a couple options you could use. From wesnoth --help:

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  --userconfig-dir arg            sets the path of the user config directory to
                                  $HOME/<arg> or My Documents\My Games\<arg> 
                                  for Windows. You can specify also an absolute
                                  path outside the $HOME or My Documents\My 
                                  Games directory. Defaults to 
                                  $HOME/.config/wesnoth on X11 and to the 
                                  userdata-dir on other systems.
  --userconfig-path               prints the path of the user config directory 
                                  and exits.
  --userdata-dir arg              sets the path of the userdata directory to 
                                  $HOME/<arg> or My Documents\My Games\<arg> 
                                  for Windows. You can specify also an absolute
                                  path outside the $HOME or My Documents\My 
                                  Games directory.
  --userdata-path                 prints the path of the userdata directory and
                                  exits.

[doofus-01]

There are a couple options you could use. From wesnoth --help:

That's cool, and works fine if you call it with those arguments, but is there a way to set it permanently? Compiling with scons changed within the last month or so, so that userdata is always /home/username/.local/share/wesnoth/1.13, ignoring $version_suffix. (It used to be /home/username/.wesnoth$version_suffix)

(And I must say that it's obnoxious to sprinkle all these files in different hidden directories. What was so wrong with putting everything in one directory?)

[Pentarctagon]

For me it's always been /home/username/.local/share/wesnoth/1.13 (since at least August), but regardless, $version_suffix no longer working may actually be my fault. I'll look at it in the next day or two - if the problem is what I think it is, then it should be an easy fix.

edit - Fix submitted.