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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