Migrate Krita Settings and Preferences (Windows to Linux)

[Colorico]

What the title says. I’m making a switch over from Windows to Linux Mint, however I am having difficulty getting my keyboard shortcuts put into a format that can be easily imported, getting all my custom brushes ported over, etc. Is there a way to get this done relatively easy? Because I’m changing OS I can’t just copy folders and place them in the locations I think they “should” go. Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated

[AhabGreybeard]

@Colorico

I am having difficulty getting my keyboard shortcuts put into a format that can be easily imported,

Are these keyboard shortcuts or do you mean a shortcut scheme?
It shouldn’t matter if you copy the config files and the resources folder to the correct place in Mint and make some simple modifications to the main config file, which is kritarc.

The resources folder is called krita and is in Windows in the C:Users\\{your username}\AppData\Roaming folder.
Copy that over to Mint in the ~/.local/share folder.

Note: ‘~’ is the standard shorthand for /home/{your username} on a Linux system.

The config files you’ll need are kritarc and kritashortscutsrc (shortcut modifications).
(Your shortcut schemes are stored in the resources folder so they are taken care of there.)

Config files are in Windows in the C:Users\\{your username}\AppData\Local folder.
Copy them over to Mint in the ~/.config folder.

kritarc contains file paths and those will point to locations in your Windows system and they will obviously be wrong for the Mint system.
Only two of those file paths are critical and the rest will be ‘flushed out’ as they are used.

Edit kritarc then search for and edit the following names:
ResourceCacheDbDirectory=
ResourceDirectory=
Change both of their values to /home/{your username}/.local/.share/krita

That should take care of it.

Edit:Add: If you need ffmpeg, I suggest that you get it from here:
https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/releases/ffmpeg-release-amd64-static.tar.xz

Another edit: I’ve changed the category of this topic because it’s not really Hardware
(Hello @Michelist )

[Michelist]

Recently I found an easy way to enter your resource folder under Windows, e.g. C:Users\\{your username}\AppData\Roaming, just enter %APPDATA%\krita\ in the address bar of the Explorer and press Enter to enter your resource folder, and C:Users\\{your username}\AppData\Local can be reached via %LOCALAPPDATA% in the address bar and hitting Enter.

Also, the default setting of hidden file extensions and hidden (system) folders under Windows can be bypassed this way.

Michelist

Hello @AhabGreybeard

[Colorico]

Thank you!! That worked perfectly!!!