You can use
-D to change the Electrum datadir and
-w to use a custom wallet file path.
-D ELECTRUM_PATH, --dir ELECTRUM_PATH
-w WALLET_PATH, --wallet WALLET_PATH
Thank you for your response!

to clarify: ELECTRUM_PATH should be something like this: /home/user/.New folder/whatever?
should it be in quotes?
or ELECTRUM_PATH is an environment variable that must be specified inside some configuration file?