Multi-head vs. panel config

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Tue Oct 5 07:44:00 CEST 2004


Quick response: if it doesn't work it's a bad bug; I'll investigate, thanks.

	Jasper

Don Christensen wrote:
> I just compiled and loaded up the latest from CVS HEAD as of this morning,
> and I have lost the config for the panel on my second screen.  I am using
> multi-head (not Xinerama), and this is the first time I have run the new
> version of Xfce that moved the user config files to .config.
> 
> There could have been an issue in that my home directory got full before
> or during the process, so I was seeing all kinds of abberant behavior
> (Thunderbird's lack error handling on a disk full condition really gets
> me angry--luckily we have an online backup mechanism so I can recover
> the prefs.js file that thunderbird silently truncates).
> 
> However, even after fixing that, I see only one config file for the
> panel:
> 
>   % ls .config/xfce4/panel/*
>   .config/xfce4/panel/contents.xml  .config/xfce4/panel/contents.xml.bak
> 
> I used to have two config files:
> 
>   % ls .xfce4/xfce4rc*
>   .xfce4/xfce4rc    .xfce4/xfce4rc.1.bak  .xfce4/xfce4rc.bak
>   .xfce4/xfce4rc.1  .xfce4/xfce4rc.1.old  .xfce4/xfce4rc.old
> 
> Did the disk space problem cause this, or has xfce-panel reverted to
> being non-multi-head friendly?  This was perhaps the single most important
> reason to me for using Xfce, so I hope this hasn't gone away.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Don
> 




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