shotwell

Shotwell is an easy-to-use, fast photo organizer. It has been installed on the Alpine Linux to complement the lightweight nature of swaywm .

The following commands set the Import Directory and ensures that it doesn’t try to write metadata back to your synced files in syncthing ..

prabu@homepc2 ~ [1]> gsettings list-recursively | grep -i shotwell
gsettings set org.gnome.shotwell.preferences.files:/org/gnome/shotwell/preferences/files/ import-dir "/data/photos"
gsettings set org.gnome.shotwell.preferences.files:/org/gnome/shotwell/preferences/files/ commit-metadata false

Verify the Settings

gsettings get org.gnome.shotwell.preferences.files:/org/gnome/shotwell/preferences/files/ import-dir

Since gsettings can be picky with relocatable schemas on Alpine/Sway, you can use the lower-level dconf tool directly, which doesn’t care about schemas:

Set directory

dconf write /org/gnome/shotwell/preferences/files/import-dir "'/data/photos'"

Check it

dconf read /org/gnome/shotwell/preferences/files/import-dir