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Document --appimage-portable-home
Document --appimage-portable-home
on https://github.com/AppImage/docs.appimage.org/blob/master/source/user-guide/portable-mode.rst.
Show an example using --appimage-portable-home
.
Make clear that --appimage-portable-home
and --appimage-portable-config
are mutually exclusive (one should only use one of them, not both).
Maybe only document --appimage-portable-home
because the other one seems to confuse people.
What are these? Never seen/used these flags. Maybe provide a text, or send a PR?
me@host:~$ /isodevice/Applications/appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage --appimage-help
AppImage options:
(...)
--appimage-portable-home Create a portable home folder to use as $HOME
--appimage-portable-config Create a portable config folder to use as
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME
(...)
Portable home:
If you would like the application contained inside this AppImage to store its
data alongside this AppImage rather than in your home directory, then you can
place a directory named
/isodevice/Applications/appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage.home
Or you can invoke this AppImage with the --appimage-portable-home option,
which will create this directory for you. As long as the directory exists
and is neither moved nor renamed, the application contained inside this
AppImage to store its data in this directory rather than in your home
directory
Note that only --appimage-portable-home
is documented extensively, for a reason.