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Pref.js or user.js
Authored by: ScooterComputer on Nov 13, '02 10:22:35PM

Okay, well I think I found something!

I ripped all the crap I had put into my prefs.js and put them into my user.js file. Then I loaded Chimera and quit it. No luck on getting those changes to take effect (the easy one to "see" was showing history in the sidebar)...BUT! When I loaded Chimera and went into the Preferences window, then quit chimera--VIOLA!--Chimera sucked the user_prefs from user.js and put them into prefs.js!

So it looks like you have to monkey with Chimera's prefs pane to get the "import" to work. The reason to use user.js (rather than just sticking things into prefs.js) is so that you can easily keep your hacks separate from Chimera's defaults, and they won't get periodically, and mysteriously, "eaten".



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