For most applications you can save your settings, skins, etc. by copying the hidden folders in your home folder.
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 00:33 +0200, Random wrote: > Hello, I've been running gentoo on my laptop for more than a year now > and gnome and my laptop are starting to behave somewhat strange. Because > of that I want to format and make a clean start. > > Now I want to save my mails, configurations, my emerged files, my xorg > configurations (getting the display right was a lot of work), etc etc > etc... to use them or atleast look at them when I redo the system. Is > there any way to do that without going manualy throught the folders and > searching each one? I mean, like a nice shellscript or aplication. Or > could someone name more or less the important folders where I should > search? > > I use gnome, evolution, xorg, grub, firefox... > > Thanks in advance. > -- [email protected] mailing list
