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.
1 Answer
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.– rebatomaOct 31, 2015 at 14:05 -
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Texmaker 4.4.1 it should be the last released (I reinstall MacTeX (TexLive 2015) and Texmaker after the update to El Capitan).– rebatomaOct 31, 2015 at 14:09
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@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.– egregOct 31, 2015 at 14:12 -
Ok, probably this is related to some changes in paths due to the new OS. Thanks anyway.– rebatomaOct 31, 2015 at 14:13
cd /
to go to the root of the filesystem and retry thefind . -name "texmaker.ini"
from there, possiblysudo 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.texmaker.ini
.