Created attachment 7978 steps to reprocuce Hi there, I decide to mange my dotfiles and configs through a git repository and stow. Nothing wrong since i tried to manage ".config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc" If a use a symlink, everything works fine until i update the terminal preferences through the "preferences" If i update the preferences , the symlink is replaced by a normal file. Example in the attachment. Best regards,
Hi, and thanks for the report! xfce4-terminal is using libxfce4util for working with the config file. I will look into the problem together with other Xfce devs and we'll decide whether this should be fixed in the terminal or in the lib.
Igor referenced this bugreport in commit 2151dfa38f538354237bb643f2f92136ae6ea1ec Support terminalrc file being a symlink https://git.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-terminal/commit?id=2151dfa38f538354237bb643f2f92136ae6ea1ec
Created attachment 7981 patch
Thanks :)
Igor referenced this bugreport in commit 5b23e5190b0ac90793344d720044711413743c2d Add support for rc files as symlinks https://git.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4util/commit?id=5b23e5190b0ac90793344d720044711413743c2d
*** Bug 14545 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***