Multi-head vs. panel config

[Don Christensen]

I took a quick look around and see that in settings.c, the contents.xml
file is the only one that appears to be consulted.  Prior to the changes
for the Base Dir Spec, there were some routines used from xfce_support.c
that paid attention to the screen number (see get_save_file()).

-Don

Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> 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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Don Christensen       Senior Software Development Engineer
djc at cisco.com         Cisco Systems, Santa Cruz, CA
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