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[SOLVED] Atril Settings in XFCE (Not Mate)

Installed XFCE ISO.   Atril used as PDF viewer, which I like and prefer. 

Where are the Atril settings stored?

 I run Atril, =>File; and  most recent PDFs accessed are displayed.  Then I open a PDF and Atril remembers the saved width setting for that PDF.  This is all well and good.  But I cant seem to find where these config settings are stored.  Searched in detail all files including hidden in home dir.

Where are they stored?

Re: Atril Settings in XFCE (Not Mate)

Reply #2 –
I dont have ~/.config/atril .  But I was able to find some settings for Atril in dconf.  Thanks.

Re: [SOLVED] Atril Settings in XFCE (Not Mate)

Reply #3 –
Also read:
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$ man find
$ man grep
In your case:
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$ find ~ -name '*atril*'
would find all files in your home directory or subdirectories whose names contain the text "atril", and
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$ grep -ri ~/* atril
would find all files in your home directory or subdirectories which contain the text "atril" inside them. There is also a much faster program similar to grep called ag in the package community/the_silver_searcher.

Bonus: The above grep command can be run in background with lower priority, and its output redirected to a file like this:
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$ nice grep -ri ~/* atril >atril.found 2>/dev/null &

Re: [SOLVED] Atril Settings in XFCE (Not Mate)

Reply #4 –
The problem was I dont have any files *atril* anything in home directory.  The settings in question ended up being in the dconf system (as pointed out by nous), which are stored in ~.config/dconf/user and are in some sort of binary format and use of dconf-editor can be used to view/change them.