Save Desktop

Save your desktop configuration

🚀 About

Save Desktop is a cross-desktop tool to back up, restore and sync your entire Linux desktop setup. It can save your themes, icons, fonts, settings, wallpapers (even dynamic ones), Flatpak apps and user data – and bring them back in just a few clicks.

📸 Screenshots

Save Page	Import Page	Sync Page
Save your setup	Restore from backup	Sync with other computers through the cloud

✨ Features

• Backup your icons, themes, fonts and wallpapers
• Save desktop settings across environments
• Include Flatpak apps and user data
• Restore everything in one click
• Sync with cloud folders
• Works with GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce, Cinnamon, Budgie, COSMIC, Pantheon, MATE, Deepin and Hyprland

Full list of supported desktops & directories

• General directories

- ~/.config/dconf
- ~/.local/share/backgrounds 
- ~/.themes
- ~/.icons
- ~/.local/share/icons
- ~/.local/share/fonts
- ~/.fonts
- ~/.config/gtk-4.0 
- ~/.config/gtk-3.0
- ~/.var/app
- ~/.local/share/flatpak/app
- /var/lib/flatpak/app

• GNOME

 - ~/.local/share/gnome-background-properties
 - ~/.local/share/gnome-shell
 - ~/.local/share/nautilus-python
 - ~/.local/share/nautilus
 - ~/.local/share/gnome-control-center

• Pantheon

- ~/.config/plank 
- ~/.config/marlin 

• Cinnamon

- ~/.config/nemo
- ~/.local/share/cinnamon
- ~/.cinnamon

• Budgie

- ~/.config/budgie-desktop
- ~/.config/budgie-extras
- ~/.config/nemo

• Cosmic (Old)

- ~/.config/pop-shell
- ~/.local/share/nautilus

• Cosmic (New)

- ~/.config/cosmic
- ~/.local/state/cosmic

• Xfce

- ~/.config/xfce4
- ~/.config/Thunar
- ~/.xfce4

• MATE

- ~/.config/caja

• KDE Plasma

- ~/.config/[k]* (all directories and files beginning with k)
- ~/.config/gtkrc
- ~/.config/dolphinrc
- ~/.config/gwenviewrc
- ~/.config/plasmashellrc
- ~/.config/spectaclerc
- ~/.config/plasmarc
- ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc
- ~/.local/share/[k]* (all directories and files beginning with k)
- ~/.local/share/konsole
- ~/.local/share/dolphin
- ~/.local/share/sddm
- ~/.local/share/wallpapers
- ~/.local/share/plasma-systemmonitor
- ~/.local/share/plasma
- ~/.local/share/aurorae
- ~/.local/share/kscreen
- ~/.local/share/color-schemes

• Deepin

- ~/.config/deepin
- ~/.local/share/deepin

• Hyprland

- ~/.config/hypr

📦 Installation

Stable releases

Flathub (recommended): The latest stable releases

Warning

Snap Store: Frozen at version 3.6.2-hotfix, no updates will be provided. Active development continues on Flathub (see above).

Beta releases

• Flathub Beta:
  • Install from file

• GNOME Builder (for development):

  1. Install GNOME Builder from Flathub
  2. Clone this repo and run the project

🤝 Contributing

I welcome contributions of all kinds!

• Code → see CONTRIBUTING.md

• Translations → contribute via Weblate:

  App	Wiki

• Issues & bugs → GitHub Issues or Open issue without GitHub

• Discussions → GitHub Discussions

This project follows the GNOME Code of Conduct.

📜 License

Save Desktop is licensed under the GPL-3.0 License.