Upgrading

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Mon Apr 11 22:03:50 CEST 2005


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joe_schmoe wrote:

>> On Apr 11, 2005 2:15 PM, joe_schmoe <geek_show at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all
>>> Before I commit to updating to 4.2 I just wanted to reassure myself that
>>> doing so won't break my existing settings (backdrop, icons on panel,
>>> window positioning, etc) of my current set up. I'm sure that it won't
>>> but just want to make sure.
> 
> OK thanks all. I'll give it a try tonight if I get a chance.
> If the ~/.xfce4 gets replaced in 4.2 with ~/.config/xfce as Brian
> pointed out, will it make much diffs if I copy my current ~/.xfce4 dir
> into ~/.config/xfce ?

Definitely do NOT do that.  Some settings filenames have changed, as
well as locations in the tree.  If you copy the directory over, they'll
definitely be lost that way.  Just leave it as-is, make a backup copy
first, and let Xfce do its own migration.

	-brian
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