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Created Feb 15, 2021 by paulvdhoeven@paulvdhoeven

KiCad creates sub folder in home folder on Linux.

Description

Recently Kicad-nightly started creating a directory structure in my home folder: /home/paul/kicad/5.99/

My home folder is precious and it is not the right location for programs to store configuration stuff. If I delete this directory structure, then KiCad re-creates it upon startup of the project manager.

KiCad has also made: /home/paul/.config/kicadnightly/5.99/ /usr/share/kicad-nightly

(Note the different spelling, with and without a dash).

KiCad Version

Application: KiCad

Version: 5.99.0-unknown-212c67c365~115~ubuntu20.04.1, release build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.0.4

Platform: Linux 5.4.0-65-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, mate, x11

	wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
	Boost: 1.71.0
	OCC: 7.3.0
	Curl: 7.68.0
	ngspice: 31
	Compiler: GCC 9.3.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
	KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
	KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
	KICAD_SPICE=ON
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