<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Ah, these suggestions are super useful! Thanks!<br><br></div>Cheers,<br></div>Mike<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rdmailings@duif.net" target="_blank">rdmailings@duif.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Yep, I would go for the command line args too:<br>
<br>
if you find the bat file which starts qgis and change it to add the<br>
command line args, you start with a qgis which puts all normal settings<br>
and options in a (temp) directory you point to:<br>
<br>
about class room setups:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.qgis.nl/2014/04/22/qgis-in-de-klas-onder-windows/?lang=en" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.qgis.nl/2014/04/22/qgis-in-de-klas-onder-windows/?lang=en</a><br>
and<br>
<a href="http://planet.qgis.org/planet/user/26/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://planet.qgis.org/planet/user/26/</a><br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Richard<br>
<span class=""><br>
On 11-01-16 20:41, Nathan Woodrow wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> There is command line args you can use. --optionspath and --settingspath<br>
> which will let you set a folder to write and Save settings to. This is<br>
> what I use when I want a clean QGIS start each time.<br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
> Nathan<br>
><br>
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 5:25 am Michael Treglia <<a href="mailto:mtreglia@gmail.com">mtreglia@gmail.com</a><br>
</span><span class="">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:mtreglia@gmail.com">mtreglia@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Thanks Alex,<br>
><br>
> Good point about Clones of the VM - I hadn't thought about that, and<br>
> didn't realize it only stores the differences against the original -<br>
> that sounds really useful more broadly too.<br>
><br>
> Thanks!<br>
> mike.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Alex M <<a href="mailto:tech_dev@wildintellect.com">tech_dev@wildintellect.com</a><br>
</span><div><div class="h5">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:tech_dev@wildintellect.com">tech_dev@wildintellect.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> On 01/11/2016 10:59 AM, Michael Treglia wrote:<br>
> > Hi Everybody,<br>
> ><br>
> > I'm updating some training material I use in a course, and<br>
> want to make<br>
> > sure I'm viewing things as new users with a clean install<br>
> would (while<br>
> > maintaining a copy with everything as I want it configured).<br>
> I've figured<br>
> > out a way to do this, but wanted to see if others have a<br>
> better solution.<br>
> ><br>
> > My method that works just fine (and lets me do screenshots and<br>
> such) is to<br>
> > work on QGIS within a Ubuntu virtual machine, from my host<br>
> Windows pc.<br>
> ><br>
> > It seems like a slightly easier way would be to have a<br>
> separate install of<br>
> > QGIS on Windows - tried that using two different install<br>
> methods on the<br>
> > same user account (OSGeo4W vs Standalone installer), but the<br>
> standalone<br>
> > picked up the settings from my OSGeo install. To work as<br>
> desired, would<br>
> > that have to be done on a separate user account?<br>
> ><br>
> > Thanks for your thoughts - Cheers,<br>
> > mike<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
><br>
> +1 Virtual Machine<br>
> It's the only real way to ensure it's 100% separate. You can<br>
> also make<br>
> cheap clones of the VM (only stores the differences), so that<br>
> you always<br>
> have a clean base VM to roll back to.<br>
><br>
> I suppose you could login to a different windows account and<br>
> that would<br>
> at least not look at your users customization. But I'm not sure<br>
> if all<br>
> other settings would be unique.<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Alex<br>
><br>
><br>
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