Re: st: xstata user preferences, via ssh with X forwarding: any tips?

[Pete Huckelba <huckelba@stata.com>]

xstata for Linux checks for the environment variable STATA_PREF_DIR at 
launch for user preferences.  If STATA_PREF_DIR is not set, it falls 
back to the DISPLAY environment variable, which as Dave noted, is login 
dependent.  Simply defining that variable should solve the multiple 
preference issue.

-Pete
huckelba@stata.com

On 05/20/2010 04:35 AM, Dave Ewart wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When running xstata remotely over ssh using X forwarding, user
> preferences may be stored in
>
>    ~/.stata11/localhost:12.0
>
> where 'localhost:12.0' is the value of the DISPLAY environment variable
> for that session.
>
> Next time one logs in, DISPLAY will probably be different, so xstata
> looks for settings in, say,
>
>    ~/.stata11/localhost:15.0
>
> This means, in effect, that xstata does not reliably save settings from
> one session to next which is rather annoying.

<snip>

> What I'd really like is some means of doing one of the following two
> things:
>
> 1. Ideally, change xstata's settings path to something I choose -
> specifically so that it doesn't include the DISPLAY setting and is fixed
> from session to session.  Is that possible?
>
> 2. Find a command-line equivalent of the 'Open/Save Preferences'
> operations so that they could be included in a startup profile.do
> command sequence.  Documentation suggests nothing like this exists, is
> that true?
>
> All suggestions welcome...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
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