Hi :) The Rpm distros put the User Profile in exactly the same place as does every other Gnu&Linux system except openSuSE and maybe SuSE.
The difference they make is about halfway through there is a folder called "libreoffice" which they rename to "lo". Programs used to put their user-profiles and configuration files straight into the users home directory but over the years there was some agreement that it made things look a bit messy so most programs are moving their configs into a sub-folder called ".config" and that "." makes it a hidden folder. If you have a version of LibreOffice earlier than 3.5.0 then it's User Profile might be in the old place but all currently supported versions are in /home/<user name>/.config/libreoffice/4/user errr, except 3.6.x which is in /home/<user name>/.config/libreoffice/3/user If you are new to Gnu&Linux it might be interesting to have a look in /home/<user name>/.config to see which programs/packages have already made it into there and then look in the old /home/<user name> to see which ones haven't made it yet. Those that haven't moved already probably will move to rejoin the others in their next upgrade (or maybe the one after). LibreOffice made the move earlier than a lot of them because LO upgrades so quickly. I'm not sure what you mean about "scattered around the system". The only bits you need to worry about are in /home Log-files are kept with all the other logfiles but you shouldn't poke around with them and the programs are kept with the other programs but you shouldn't poke around with them either. Generally it is not a good idea to poke around with any system-files and all system-files form everything that is outside the /home You may have successfully followed advice to make some changes to your system-files to move around menu entries in your boot-menu or edited your network settings or graphics card or ssh but all those are "per machine" rather then "per user" and you will have had to use "sudo", "gksu", "su" or had to deal with a dialogue-box asking permission to act as "Super User" in order to deal with changes to system-files. One advantage is that if you need to back-up your system then you only need to back-up your /home and that doesn't grab tons of extra stuff that wont work on a different system. You could copy your /home to a different machine and then install a different OS and still find all your stuff and configs neatly unharmed and all working to give you your programs the way you tweaked them. It helps if your /home is on it's own partition because then there are tons of other neat tricks you can do. Anyway all this is waaaay off-topic. It would be nice to have a separate thread about that sort of thing but it's not really anything to do with LibreOffice. One nice forum that tries to cover all the different flavours of Gnu&Linux is http://www.linuxquestions.org although each distro tends to have it's own in addition to using that one. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster <webmas...@krackedpress.com> To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 13 September 2013, 21:51 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Linux hyphenation On 09/13/2013 04:36 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote: > Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: > >> In the top box of the "Writing Aids", I see Hunspell Spellchecker, >> Libhyphen Hyphenator, Lightproof grammar checker, and Openoffice.org New >> Thesaurus. > > I'm missing the "Libhyphen Hyphenator" and "Lightproof Grammar Checker". > > I'll try renaming the profile. I've done this so many times in Windows > that it's second nature to me. I've been a little skittish about doing > in in Linux as I'm just not accustomed to the way Linux spreads things > around its file system. > > Virgil > Yes, Linux can be "something" after using Windows for years and years. The .config folder is a hidden folder as well, so that messes people up as well. I know where it is located with Debian-based Linux, Like Ubuntu and Mint, but not on the RPM based installs of LO. I do not know why you do not have those two parts. I recently did a clean install on a new drive. So it all has been mostly "default" installs. I did not add anything to LO except the dictionary .oxt file. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
