settings get reverted to defaults at X restart

[jpatota]

That was the problem, Thanks.

Erik Harrison wrote:
> On 11/20/05, John D. Patota <jpatota at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> 
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>>I'm using a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.0 and the version of xfce which
>>comes in the packages hosted on the bsd's mirrors (4.2.2)
>>
>>When changing settings in the panel as a normal user, these changes are
>>shown in the contents.xml.active. The interesting thing happens when I
>>restart X. All of my changes get reverted back to their defaults.
>>
>>This is not a problem i experience as root however.
>>
>>Does anybody have any feedback?
> 
> 
> Are you just killing X instead of logging out normally? If so you are
> seeing a safety feature of the panel that protects itself from
> potentially broken plugins - if the panel doesn't close normally, it
> doesn't save it's settings, so that buggy plugins (which can crash the
> panel) don't get loaded on the next panel restart.
> 
> If you can't logout "normally" then you can force the panel to save
> it's settings. Right click on it, and hit "Restart". That should flush
> the current config to disk.
> 
>>Thanks
>>
>>John Patota
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