editing xfce4rc

[purslow at sympatico.ca]

040621 Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> purslow at sympatico.ca wrote:
>> wanting to swap  2  panel-launcher items
>> -- one is in the panel itself, the other in the list in the drawer -- ,
>> i edited  ~/.xfce4/xfce4rc  & swapped the relevant lines therein.
>> however, even after a reboot the old version of the panel remained
>> & somehow XFCE had replaced my edited version with the old one.
>> surely, i sb able to edit a config file to my taste & have it obeyed.
> First log out, then edit the file.

yes, thanx, that did strike me later, after i had sent in my query.

> The panel saves its configuration on exit.

is there a reason why it does that ?
would it not be better if it saved it whenever the user makes changes ?

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