Other configurations

Manage multiple config files

For some cases, you may want to have multiple config files for different purposes.

You can do this by editting config.lua file.

In Xournal++, from the top menu, click Plugins > Edit config.lua.

For example, edit config.lua to:

config.lua

settings_all = {
  -- {shortcut to start exporting, config file name, shortcut to edit this config file}
  {"g", "config.json", "i"},
  {"", "config-2.json", ""},
}

edit_config_lua_shortcut = ""

Then you would have two config files, config.json and config-2.json.

After editting config.lua, you need to restart xournal++ to make the changes take effect.

Then, In xournal++, from the top menu, click Plugins -> Advanced Export -> Edit config-2.json to edit config-2.json

Shortcuts

The shortcut for executing plugin and editing config file can also be set in config.lua.

config.lua

settings_all = {
  -- {shortcut to start exporting, config file name, shortcut to edit this config file}
  {"g", "config.json", "i"},
  {"h", "config-2.json", ""},
}

edit_config_lua_shortcut = ""

In this example,
the shortcut for exporting using config.json is G, and the shortcut for editing the config.json is I. the shortcut for exporting using config-2.json is H, and the shortcut for editing the config-2.json is "empty", meaning you doesn't set a shortcut for editing config-2.json.

Use <Ctrl> to represent the Ctrl key, <Alt> to represent the Alt key, <Shift> to represent the Shift key, and <Super> to represent the Super key.
Eg: <Alt><Shift>j represents Alt+Shift+J

Note

If your shortcut conflict with default Xournal++ shortcuts, default shortcuts would have higher priority. For exapmle, Ctrl+S is the default shortcut for saving the file, so you could not set Ctrl+S as a shortcut for this plugin.