Where Does Variety Store Wallpapers and Config?
Variety keeps wallpaper sources, quotas and history in a config folder in home on Linux. What to back up and move.
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Variety centers on a config folder in home holding sources, quotas, favorites and rotation history. Downloaded images land in a fetched tree below it. The wallpaper set at any moment is one file from that tree.
That layout makes favorites portable across reinstalls. Copy the folder with Variety quit and the rotation returns. Sync features stay separate, so cloud copies need their own setup after restore.
Where Variety stores this, by platform
~/.config/variety
Sources, quotas, favorites, history and the fetched downloads tree. Back up with Variety quit. Pair folder copies with export of custom source URLs kept outside defaults.
Frequently asked questions
How do I move Variety to a new machine?
Copy the variety folder with Variety quit, especially favorites, config and history files. Sources and quotas travel together. Downloaded walls live in the fetched tree, so include it when moving libraries across machines.
Where are downloaded wallpapers?
In the fetched folder inside the variety tree, sorted per source. Favorites get copied to the favorites subfolder. Clearing fetched wallpapers only drops downloads while sources and quotes stay configured.
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