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This is a list of some helpful environment variables, that you can use to modify the behavior of Inkscape itself as well as of the libraries it uses.
Inkscape
Environment variables specific to Inkscape:
INKSCAPE_PROFILE_DIR- Specifies a different location for the user profile directory (i.e. the folder where preferences and user data are saved).
- By default this equals to something like ~/.config/inkscape (*nix) or %appdata%/inkscape (Windows)
INKSCAPE_DATADIR- Specifies a different location for the Inkscape data directory (i.e. the system folder where Inkscape looks for shared files).
- By default this equals to something like /share (*nix) or %ProgramFiles%/Inkscape/share (Windows).
- Make sure there's a share/inkscape folder present in this location that contains system-wide Inkscape data like extensions, filters, gradients, icons, etc.
INKSCAPE_LOCALEDIR- Specifies a different location for the folder where Inkscape looks for the translation catalog (i.e. binary inkscape.mo files).
- By default this equals to something like /share/locale (*nix) or %ProgramFiles%/Inkscape/share/locale (Windows).