Comment 2 for bug 615553

> It should be possible to put your preferred snap settings in the default
> new document template, if I'm right. Never tested this though.

Tested and confirmed: snap settings are picked up from the used template. You can either edit the global default template ('/usr/share/inkscape/templates/default.svg') or save a user default template as '~/.config/inkscape/templates/default.svg' - it will set document-specific settings like window size, page size, initial zoom level&center, guides, grids, snapping (what snaps, snap targets) etc. for each new document.

<http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/annotate/head%3A/share/templates/README>