Multi-head vs. panel config

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Yup, I screwed up, sorry. Just committed the fix to CVS. I guess beta 
realease are really good for something ;-)

Thanks,
	Jasper

Don Christensen wrote:
> 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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