{"id":116,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=116"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"grok-your-settings-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Grok your settings directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s something in BeOS or one of your applications that should be customizable but you can&#8217;t find a widget anywhere to tweak its settings, there&#8217;s a chance that it&#8217;s controlled by a setting lurking in a subdirectory of the <b>\/boot\/home\/config\/settings\/<\/b> directory. Even if the app <i>does<\/i> provide a widget, you may prefer to work with the settings files directly.<br \/>\n Some examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NetPositive&#8217;s cache is stored in the NetPositive subdirectory (unfortunately, the N+ settings file here won&#8217;t let you change the default startup page, as it appears it might.\n<li>BeMail signatures are stored as plain text files in the BeMail subdirectory.\n<li>Printers can be removed from the list of printers you&#8217;ve added by removing their data files from the Printers subdirectory.\n<li>Terminal color\/font schemes can be stored as alternates (the active one is always called Terminal; rename your backups with meaningful names and then swap the file names when needed). <\/ul>\n<p> You&#8217;ll find many more files and directories inside this hierarchy &#8212; experiment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s something in BeOS or one of your applications that should be customizable but you can&#8217;t find a widget anywhere to tweak its settings, there&#8217;s a chance that it&#8217;s controlled by a setting lurking in a subdirectory of the \/boot\/home\/config\/settings\/ directory. Even if the app does provide a widget, you may prefer to work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}