cloning xfce config?

[Ulli Horlacher]

I have a new install of Mint 21 with Xfce (4.16).
Everything looks good.
Then I copied this installation to a USB disk with linuxclone(*).
On a second PC I can boot with this USB disk.

BUT my default user "tux" has now a very different desktop look:
It has "dark mode", two panels (top and bottom), different background
image, etc.

On the original Mint system the user tux has no dark mode and only one
panel:

https://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/fop/jvm7xUFJ/Mint21.jpg

But /home/tux/ is exactly the same on both systems!

Therefore some other (system?) config files must be missing, perhaps a
problem with linuxclone.

A workaround would be to save the complete Xfce configuration for the user
tux in his $HOME and copy it to the USB disk.
How can this be done?


Yes, I can configure the desktop of the user tux on the USB disk, e.g.
switch from dark to bright mode, adjust the panels, etc. But this is a lot
of work. I want to clone the desktop configuration.

I have done this before with Xubuntu 18 and linuxclone, there was no such
problem. The desktop looked exactly the same.

There must be a problem in combination of Mint, Xfce and linuxclone...
very difficult to debug!


(*) https://fex.belwue.de/linuxtools/linuxclone.html

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