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''What follows is useful mainly for FreeMind 0.7.1. Since FreeMind 0.8.0, you can edit many of the user preferences in a graphical dialog. But even here, some properties have to be edited in user.properties.''
User [[preferences]]/options are technically stored in a ''user properties file'' (typically "user.properties") and the items are called ''user properties''.


There are several options you can change in the menu Edit > Preferences. However, there's a lot of options customizable in the text file ''user.properties''. If you are using Windows installer, this file is created automatically, and you only need to find it.
In FreeMind 0.7.1, only a few preferences could have been set in a GUI menu, in the Edit > Preferences menu.


== Linux ==
Since FreeMind 0.8.0, you can edit many of the user preferences in a graphical dialog. But even in this version and later, some preferences (properties) have to be edited in the user properties file.


On Linux, the file user.properties is stored in the folder .freemind in your [[home folder|home directory]] (~/.freemind or $HOME/.freemind).  [This would certainly be consistent with other Linux apps, but (for me at least) FreeMind created ~/freemind and wasn't going to have anything to do with ~/.freemind.]
You can change a user property in the user properties file using plain text editor like Notepad. Every line starting with # will be ignored.


== Windows 2000 and XP ==
The user properties file is located in ''FreeMind home folder''; see [[home folder]].


On Windows 2000 and XP, the path should look like
If you are using Windows installer, the user properties file is created automatically, and you only need to find it.


C:\Documents and Settings\(your user name)\freemind\user.properties
If you are using plain binary distribution without installer, you have to copy the user properties file to its proper destination yourself [2026: really?].
 
On German Windows setups it should be "Dokumente und Einstellungen" instead of "Documents and Settings".
 
== Windows 95 and 98 ==
 
On Windows 95 and 98, the path should look like
C:\WINDOWS\freemind\user.properties
 
To find out about your home folder, run the command
 
echo %HOMEPATH%
 
in your shell, which you can enter by running ''command'' or ''cmd''. (this is not true in all installations. If you relocate your Desktop folder the FreeMind-dir will be right next to it, whereever you put it.)
 
== Miscellaneous ==
 
You can change the 'user.properties' using plain text editor like Notepad. Note that every line starting with # will be ignored.
 
If you are using plain binary distribution without installer, you have to copy 'user.properties' to its proper destination yourself.


==Implementation==
==Implementation==

Revision as of 06:33, 10 September 2026

User preferences/options are technically stored in a user properties file (typically "user.properties") and the items are called user properties.

In FreeMind 0.7.1, only a few preferences could have been set in a GUI menu, in the Edit > Preferences menu.

Since FreeMind 0.8.0, you can edit many of the user preferences in a graphical dialog. But even in this version and later, some preferences (properties) have to be edited in the user properties file.

You can change a user property in the user properties file using plain text editor like Notepad. Every line starting with # will be ignored.

The user properties file is located in FreeMind home folder; see home folder.

If you are using Windows installer, the user properties file is created automatically, and you only need to find it.

If you are using plain binary distribution without installer, you have to copy the user properties file to its proper destination yourself [2026: really?].

Implementation

See also

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