To clear up a few things…. “$HOME” is a variable which refers to the current user's home directory, which for Ubuntu 20.04., is at /home/$USER where $USER is the unix username, of whoever is currently logged into that session, e.g., /home/karim So that, for $USER=‘greycard’, the directory, $HOME/.config/darktable/watermarks will be at /home/greycard/.config/darktable/watermarks
Any watermarks placed there will only be available to that particular user, in this case, ‘karim’. To create a watermark which is available to all users, it would need to be placed in the directory you mentioned, /usr/local/share/darktable/watermarks but only a user with superuser privileges can write to that directory, using sudo, or with administrator privileges in the GUI. This may be the way to go, if one is in an environment where more than one user will be using the same watermarks, say for a studio. To sum up, /home/$USER/.config/darktable/watermarks is for one particular user, “$USER”, and /usr/local/share/darktable/watermarks is for all users on the system. To make a systemwide watermark from, /$HOME/Pictures/SVG/MyWatermark.svg available to all users, do > cd ~/Pictures/SVG > sudo cp MyWatermark.svg /usr/local/share/darktable/watermarks >From “Files”, a.k.a., Nautilus, —the actual name of the application is, “Nautilus”, but Ubuntu makes it appear to end users as, “Files”— an navigate to "Computer/usr/local/share/darktable/watermarks". (One ought to now see four SVG files). Right-click, (or press the [ Application ] | [ Menu ] key on the keyboard), and select, “Open as Administrator” with the mouse, (or press, [ d ] on the keyboard). You will be asked to enter your password, (assuming you have SuperUser privileges). A new “Files” window will open, (with the same four files visible). Drag whatever SVG files you want available to all users into this window. When done, CLOSE THE WINDOW! (It is a security risk to walk away from your computer with any SuperUser privileged task running). All SVG files in that window will now be available to all system users. …so I created one and populated it with the .svg files, but darktable > doesn't find them. You may have to restart Dt for it to see the files, or try to click the “Refresh” symbol —circular arrow— beside the Watermark dropdown menu, to refresh the list. (If that does not work, try restarting your computer. Such drastic action ought not be necessary, but it means that, somewhere along the way, when the configuration was supposed to read the presence of those files, it did not. Restarting simply means that all configurations will be re-read in the order in which they are to be done, for the entire system). Sincerely, Karim Hosein Top Rock Photography 754.999.1652 On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 at 18:53, Willy Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > Where are watermarks stored in darktable 3.2.1 under Ubuntu Linux > 20.04.1? > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > [email protected] > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
