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The panel's settings reset after rebooting Xfce.
Status:
RESOLVED: FIXED
Product:
Xfce4-panel

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Description Daniel 2005-10-06 22:22:11 CEST
When making any type of modifications to the panel, such as adding a launcher,
editing a launcher, modifying the clock, these settings are lost when restarting
Xfce.  This only applies to the Xfce panel.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
The problem can be reproduced by modifying items on the panel and restarting Xfce.

Actual Results:  
After performing the step above, everything in the panel will be reset to the
defaults of Xfce.

Expected Results:  
The panel should have been able to save these settings so that when I run Xfce
again, my panel is still the same as it was configured.
Comment 1 Jasper Huijsmans editbugs 2005-10-26 13:14:49 CEST
How do you restart Xfce? I know this can happen when you simply kill the X
server. In that case it is better to restart the panel after making changes,
either from the right-click menu on a panel handle, or by running 'pkill -HUP
xfce4-panel'.
Comment 2 Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail) 2005-11-01 08:42:52 CET
Jasper, I'd suggest having a timeout after changes are made, say something on
the order of 10 seconds, after which any unsaved panel changes are saved.  This
should avoid the problem of a rogue plugin killing the panel immediately after
it's inserted (which should hopefully not happen anymore with external plugins,
anyway).  It's really kinda silly that the panel has to quit properly to save
its config.
Comment 3 Jasper Huijsmans editbugs 2005-12-07 11:46:49 CET
(In reply to comment #2)
> Jasper, I'd suggest having a timeout after changes are made, say something on
> the order of 10 seconds, after which any unsaved panel changes are saved.  This
> should avoid the problem of a rogue plugin killing the panel immediately after
> it's inserted (which should hopefully not happen anymore with external plugins,
> anyway).  It's really kinda silly that the panel has to quit properly to save
> its config.

Yes, of course, you are right. I wanted to do that before, but somehow never got
around to it :(

Please try this version:
http://mocha.xfce.org/archive/test/xfce4-panel-4.2.3.1.tar.gz

I think that should fix the issue.
Comment 4 Jasper Huijsmans editbugs 2005-12-20 10:19:43 CET
I'll resolve this bug as fixed. I'm not sure if there will be an official
release but this package will at least remain on the server.

Bug #1178

Reported by:
Daniel
Reported on: 2005-10-06
Last modified on: 2010-11-20

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Assignee:
Nick Schermer
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