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I'm looking for the texmaker.ini file inside my MacBook with OS 10.11. Someone could provide information about the position of the file.

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  • support.apple.com/en-us/HT204014, techradar.com/how-to/computing/apple/… – Marijn Oct 20 '15 at 9:04
  • @Marijn I already tried both! – Mattia Oct 20 '15 at 9:17
  • in the terminal you could try cd / to go to the root of the filesystem and retry the find . -name "texmaker.ini" from there, possibly sudo find . -name "texmaker.ini" if you have sudo (administrator) rights to prevent access denied errors. If it is not found from the root then the file does not exist. – Marijn Oct 20 '15 at 9:45
  • I wanted to write a similar comment. Although you should, especially when using privileges, limit the search scope. with -x i.e. "sudo find -x . -name "texmaker.ini"" because else you are going to search wherever the filesystems leads. – nonsense Oct 20 '15 at 11:11
  • I tried all the possibilities you (@Marijn and @eject) have suggested but the result provide no file called texmaker.ini. – Mattia Oct 31 '15 at 12:54
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The texmaker.ini file is created in the user's home and it's stored in

~/.config/xm1

If I do

ls ~/.config/xm1/

the result is

texmaker.ini        texmakerapp.ini

The second file contains just the initialization for the language interface. The start of the first file is

[General]
IniMode=true

[texmaker]
Beamer\Author=
Beamer\BabelDefault=english
Beamer\Encoding=utf8
Beamer\Size=11pt
Beamer\Theme=Warsaw
Color\Background=@Variant(\0\0\0\x43\x1\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\0\0)
Color\Command=@Variant(\0\0\0\x43\x1\xff\xff\x80\x80\0\0\0\0\0\0)

Please, make certain you have write privileges in the ~/.config directory; as discussed in chat, the result of ls -ld ~/.config should output something like

drwx------  11 foouser  staff  374 Oct 31 15:34 /Users/foouser/.config/

where foouser stands for your user name. If it's root, this means the directory has been created by some application under a sudo regime. Just issue

sudo chown foouser ~/.config

(foouser should be what you see as output of whoami) and then

chmod go-rx ~/.config

Check the output of ls -ld ~/.config and, in case, issue the suitable chmod command,

chmod u+rwx ~/.config

This should solve all your issues, because now Texmaker will be able to save the .ini files in the proper place.

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  • Hi egreg, thanks for your support. I checked, but in my ~/.config folder there is no /xm1 directory. – Mattia Oct 31 '15 at 14:05
  • @Mattia What version of Texmaker? – egreg Oct 31 '15 at 14:07
  • Texmaker 4.4.1 it should be the last released (I reinstall MacTeX (TexLive 2015) and Texmaker after the update to El Capitan). – Mattia Oct 31 '15 at 14:09
  • @Mattia I don't know with OS X 10.11, but with 10.9, upon moving away the ~/.config/xm1 directory, launching Texmaker and quitting it recreates the directory. Anyway, the latest release is 4.5. – egreg Oct 31 '15 at 14:12
  • Ok, probably this is related to some changes in paths due to the new OS. Thanks anyway. – Mattia Oct 31 '15 at 14:13

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