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I apologize if this is not a good forum to post this question/issue.

I am forking BlockMen's "Better HUD" and I want to override my server's setting for "hud_item_wheel" from the client's minetest.conf. But I am not sure how to do so. Currently the client uses whatever the server's setting is. I have opened an issue on "Better Hud" GitHub project.

I'm not sure, but I think unified_inventory does this with the "unified_inventory_lite" setting.