Saving sevaral configurations?

[Martin Lewicki]

Eg I use Stellarium for different projects. It would be useful to save a custom configuration file for each project to recall later rather than having to tediously remake them after every Stellarium starts.

An example is;  displaying an equatorial view (rather than alt-az) with ground and atmosphere off and other detailed settings made up required for the project. Save it as say  Config "project name." Then, when I wish to load this configuration, I could load it from a drop-down list ready to go. After one is finished the default configuration can then be restored from the same dropdown menu or a keystroke.

Martin

[Alexander V. Wolf]

Hi!

сб, 9 нояб. 2024 г. в 11:38, Martin Lewicki <martin....@gmail.com>:

Eg I use Stellarium for different projects. It would be useful to save a custom configuration file for each project to recall later rather than having to tediously remake them after every Stellarium starts.

An example is;  displaying an equatorial view (rather than alt-az) with ground and atmosphere off and other detailed settings made up required for the project. Save it as say  Config "project name." Then, when I wish to load this configuration, I could load it from a drop-down list ready to go. After one is finished the default configuration can then be restored from the same dropdown menu or a keystroke.

You can select a custom config.ini file at startup of planetarium as a parameter of the program. See Stellarium User Guide.

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With best regards, Alexander

[Paul Gilmartin]

On 11/9/24 05:10, Alexander V. Wolf wrote:
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> сб, 9 нояб. 2024 г. в 11:38, Martin Lewicki:

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> Eg I use Stellarium for different projects. It would be useful to save a custom configuration file for each project to recall later rather than having to tediously remake them after every Stellarium starts.

> ...

> You can select a custom config.ini file at startup of planetarium as a parameter of the program. See Stellarium User Guide.
>

More elaborate differences involving data files can
be selected with different values of --user-dir.

I have experimented with using symbolic links to share
data subdirectories among different user-directories.
(Carefully! Backups are my friend.)

I have experimented with running multiple instances of
stellarium concurrently with different "port" values to
allow a remote control to choose among them.

You can create shell aliases or scripts that set multiple
options with a single short command.

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gil