Configuration Files

It's possible that you might never need to know where these are, but there are some situations where it's useful to know where this information is saved. What we're talking about on this page is the configuration settings that you might make in Preferences, as well as where your templates, dictionaries, and so on are saved.

In the 1.5.x versions of Scribus, these locations have changed, at least in Linux. Even before the change, different operating systems had different schemes.

Linux

There are two places where you can look for these files when you are using Linux. The first is in your home directory, something like /home/username, which we'll abbreviate as $HOME. There are directories which are normally hidden from view, so if you are using a file manager you may have to select a setting such as Show Hidden Files. What you want to locate is $HOME/.config/scribus/. Inside this directory, you should find the following:

Some working directories are located in $HOME/.local/share/scribus/:

Another location for files and settings is in /usr/share/scribus/, where you will find:

Windows

In Windows, the equivalent of $HOME/.config/scribus/ is C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Scribus\. Note that AppData is a somewhat hidden directory, in that it will not automatically show up if you select C:\Users\username\. You will also find there:

The equivalent of /usr/share/scribus/ is in C:\Program Files\ScribusVersion\share\. There are some additional directories for poppler and python also included.

OSX

There are 3 locations to find these various directories and files in OSX: