Xpra: Ticket #624: osx does not find the default config file

This means that OSX gets its defaults from the default config object, which may have different values.

This leads to discrepancies (like the lack of compressors or packet-encoders which was worked around in r7090).

Sat, 02 Aug 2014 08:59:16 GMT - Antoine Martin: status changed; resolution set

status changed from new to closed
resolution set to fixed

Refactored the code to make it cleaner / clearer in r7095.

We now have 2 config locations exposed via the xpra.platform.path module: the system default (get_global_conf_dir) and the user config (get_default_conf_dir).

The system default config directory can be overriden using the environment variable XPRA_SYSCONF_DIR, otherwise it is set to:

C:\Program Files\Xpra\ (or whatever the application's installation directory is) on win32
/Volumes/Xpra/Xpra.app/Contents/Resources/ (or whatever the path to the resources directory is) on osx
/etc/xpra or /usr/local/etc on posix

The user's configuration directory can be overriden using the environment variable XPRA_CONF_DIR, otherwise it is set to:

~/.xpra on posix and osx
%APPDATA%\Xpra on win32 (ie: C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Xpra)

Sat, 23 Jan 2021 05:01:13 GMT - migration script:

this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/624