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Persistent User Configurations

October 2, 2026
Contributed by: 
C

This guide describes the Persistent Home feature in UniconOS. When enabled, user-specific configuration data is retained across logoff/logon cycles and device reboots.

By default, Persistent Home is disabled.

Overview

When persistent home is enabled, your personal settings will be saved and selected user configurations remain available across:

  • User sign-out and subsequent sign-in
  • Device restarts

Persistence is controlled explicitly via configuration (see Configuration).

Supported Applications and Data

Google Chrome

  • Persisted data:
    • User profiles
    • Appearance settings (themes, fonts, color schemes)
    • other browser preferences
  • Behavior:
    • Settings persist across sessions
    • Depending on backend configuration, settings may follow the user across devices

Firefox

  • Persisted data:
    • Appearance settings (fonts, color schemes
    • Download location/path
    • other browser preferences
  • Important:
  • See Limitations regarding full profile file support.

ICA (Citrix Workspace App)

  • Persisted data:
    • User-specific ICA settings (for example, session-related preferences)
  • Continuity behavior:
    • Enables improved session continuity during temporary disruptions in the Citrix Delivery infrastructure.

GNOME Keyring (credentials/secrets)

This option is typically used in combination with browser or ICA persistence.

  • Persisted data:
    • Stored credentials
    • Application secrets used by supported applications

Audio

  • Persisted data:
    • Each user’s list of USB audio devices remembered with Remember device. The list is per user and stays on the device — it does not follow the user to another device.
  • Requires UniconOS 2609 or later. Earlier versions ignore this option.
  • Requires user authentication. When User authentication is set to None, remembered devices last only for the current session, even with Audio selected.
  • UniconOS offers Remember device only while Inform user on changes (device configuration, Hardware > USB Settings) is on. When it’s off, no notification appears for USB audio devices, so users can’t remember one.

Scout Board also offers Microsoft Edge as a persistable application, in addition to the applications described above.

Configuration

Persistent Home can be configured either locally or centrally.

  • Local file: /setup/terminal.ini
  • Central management: Configurable via device profile in Scout

Configuration Parameter

  • Use PersistentHomeApplications to select which items persist.
  • Allowed values:
    • google-chrome
    • firefox
    • ica
    • gnome-keyring
    • audio
    • ALL

Behavior

  • Multiple values can be combined as required, separated by commas, for example google-chrome,audio.
  • ALL enables persistence for all supported applications available in the environment, including Audio.
  • gnome-keyring can be combined with:
    • google-chrome
    • ica
    • or both

Scout Board route (from UniconOS Management 2609): go to Devices > Device management > Device configuration (base configuration, an OU or a device) > Persistent home > Enable persistent home configuration > Select applications to persist, then select Audio (or any other application). Persist all applications includes Audio. The same control is available in Configuration labels. This is Scout Board only — the legacy Scout Console has no Persistent home settings.

Select applications to persist

Configuration example of PersistentHomeApplications

An advanced file entry for PersistentHomeApplications overrides the Persistent home section. Add audio to that entry too, or remove the entry so the Scout Board setting takes effect.

Limitations

  • Firefox:
    • Customized settings persist
    • Full profile file persistence is not supported in this release
  • Persistence behavior may vary depending on:
    • Organizational security policies
    • Infrastructure configuration
    • Central management settings
  • A factory reset deletes all Persistent Home data, including every user’s remembered audio devices, whether it is started on the device or sent from Scout Board (Reset configuration). Retain local configuration does not keep this data. Moving a device to another OU also deletes its Persistent Home data.

Administrators should validate persistence behavior in their specific deployment scenario.

Persistent User Configurations
October 2, 2026
Contributed by: 
C
October 2, 2026
Contributed by: 
C

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