First run does not create ~/.config/epoptes folder

I installed epoptes on my LTSP server and in my chroot for clients. When I run epoptes from my laptop using ssh -XC user@{server_IP} epoptes and try to send a message, I get the following output in CLI and no message is sent...

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/epoptes/ui/gui.py", line 335, in sendMessageDialog
    msg = startSendMessageDlg()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/epoptes/ui/sendmessage.py", line 72, in startSendMessageDlg
    f = open(os.path.expanduser('~/.config/epoptes/settings'), 'w')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/user/.config/epoptes/settings'

I am able to control the clients, just not send message.

I created the folder manually and all was fine.