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Settings

Affinity apps sometimes tend not to save settings properly. There are two methods of fixing this. Given a wineprefix of drive_c/users/$USERNAME/AppData/Roaming/Affinity/:

  1. Clone this repository and copy the files from ./Auxiliary/ to their respective paths inside the wineprefix.
  2. Locate the settings folders on a windows machine and paste them into the corresponding locations in the wineprefix.

Method 1 - AffinityPluginLoader (Recommended Method)

Install Affinity Plugin Loader + WineFix

Author: Noah C3
Project: AffinityPluginLoader + WineFix
This patch is community‑made and not official, but it greatly improves runtime stability and fixes the “Preferences not saving” issue on Linux.

Purpose

  • Provides plugin loading and dynamic patch injection via Harmony
  • Restores on‑the‑fly settings saving under Wine
  • Temporarily skips the Canva sign‑in dialog (until the browser redirect fix is ready)

Installation

Replace paths dynamically as these commands adapt automatically to your prefix and Affinity directory:

# Define Wine prefix
export WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.affinity"
cd "$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/Program Files/Affinity/Affinity/"

# 1.) Download & extract AffinityPluginLoader + WineFix bundle
curl -L -o /tmp/affinitypluginloader-plus-winefix.tar.xz \
  https://github.com/noahc3/AffinityPluginLoader/releases/latest/download/affinitypluginloader-plus-winefix.tar.xz

tar -xf /tmp/affinitypluginloader-plus-winefix.tar.xz -C .

# 2.) Replace launcher for compatibility
mv "Affinity.exe" "Affinity.real.exe"
mv "AffinityHook.exe" "Affinity.exe"

Now your existing launchers still work, wine .../Affinity.exe automatically loads AffinityPluginLoader & WineFix.

🧪 Verify

Run Affinity as before:

WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.affinity" wine "$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/Program Files/Affinity/Affinity/Affinity.exe"

- You should now see Affinity Plugin Loader output in your terminal log on startup.
- Preferences and settings should now save correctly on Linux.

Note

  • Updates to Affinity may overwrite Affinity.exe.
    • If that happens, re‑extract the affinitypluginloader-plus-winefix.tar.xz bundle.
  • WineFix currently disables Canva sign‑in. It will be restored in a future patch once the redirect handler is stable.
  • Always download from Noah C3’s official GitHub releases.

Method 2

This method is tested and working for the recommended Lutris/EW install.

Clone the repository and move into the source directory:

git clone [email protected]:seapear/AffinityOnLinux.git
cd AffinityOnLinux/Auxiliary/Settings/

Execute the following code for each app, each time replacing $APP with the name of the target Affinity application and $USERNAME with the name of the user.

mv $APP/2.0/Settings drive_c/users/$USERNAME/AppData/Roaming/Affinity/

Method 3

Copy the respective settings folders from C:\\\users\$USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Affinity\$APP\$VERSION\Settings\ on windows into the corresponding directory inside the wineprefix.

For example:

C:\\\users\$USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Affinity\Designer\2.0\Settings\ -> drive_c/users/$USERNAME/AppData/Roaming/Affinity/Designer/2.0/

C:\\\users\$USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Affinity\Photo\2.0\Settings\ -> drive_c/users/$USERNAME/AppData/Roaming/Affinity/Photo/2.0/

C:\\\users\$USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Affinity\Publisher\2.0\Settings\ -> drive_c/users/$USERNAME/AppData/Roaming/Affinity/Designer/2.0/

Editing The Settings Files

The settings files use the .xml format and can be modified using a text editor.