On ven., 2011-10-28 at 16:52 -0400, Ian Sullivan wrote: > Package: xfce4-panel > Version: 4.8.6-1 > > This behavior began after upgrading from 4.8.5-1 to 4.8.6-1. > The panel lost all settings. I had originally two panels > with various widgets and locations. The first time I > restarted after the upgrade, I was down to one panel, > floating near the top left of the screen, where no panel > had previously been located. The second panel was gone, > all widgets and other settings were gone from the one > panel. As far as I could tell, the original .xml for > the panel was fine. > > Despite adding new items and reconfiguring the panel, > subsequent restarts result in the same single blank > panel. I have tried copying the default settings > from /etc/xdg/xfce4/panel/default.xml to no avail. > > I have also tried just removing the xfce4-panel.xml > file, removing the entire ~/.config/xfce4 directory, > and between all of these attempts, been deleting > my ~/.cache/sessions directory. > > If I create a new user, everything seems to work > fine. If I delete the new user's xfce4-panel.xml > and replace it with the default from /etc, I get > the default panel layout as expected. If I do > the same thing with my user, I get a broken version > of the default file. Copying that file to the > test user's ~/.config directory results in the > same single broken panel behavior for the test > user.
So you're saying that the /etc/xdg/xfce4/panel/default.xml file is broken and will even break users configuration even though they override the default one? I didn't notice that so it might still be config-dependent, but that's indeed bad. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis
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