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Settings not being saved

  • 17-01-2004 11:03pm
    #1
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Regularly, after a reboot, I find that various things such as icons, shortcuts, file associations, have been reverted to a previous state, about the time of the previous reboot. For instance, if I create a quicklaunch link to an application now, then reboot, I can be fairly sure it won't be there when I log back in.
    Is there some command to save this kind of thing?


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  • #2
    electrofelix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 273 ✭✭electrofelix


    normally if you are using Gnome or KDE you need to tell them to save you session settings on logout.

    In any case, it would help if you indicated what desktop you were using.

    if its gnome this should help http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/2.2/gosstartsession-2.html


  • #3
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Oops, so it would! I'm using KDE 3.1
    I often have to reboot from the command line, so the old GUI tick-box option isn't available.


  • #4
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Ah jesus wept, this is getting annoying. One time in 20 that dragon chap comes up and asks do I want to save my settings (or should I go and undo all the nice changes you've made for no apparent reason?) but I can't get him to come back. Please Kandalf, if that's your name! This should be baby infants stuff, but I can't for the life of me figure out the right search combination to lead me to a page to explain How to Not Lose All Your Menu/Shortcut changes when you reboot. :confused:


  • #5
    parasite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,077 ✭✭✭parasite


    you're using mdk9.2 right ? as am I, and i've suddenly started having shortcuts menu icons disappear too
    :mad:

    /considers going to less retarded os


  • #6
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Mdk 9.1, but yeah, kind of starting to dislike it. Installed a DVD player recently and can't use it with Xine or Mplayer - no DVD button in one, and the other just won't open it.


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  • #7
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    KDE is in fact totally fuxxored. Try this:
    Open konqueror and the file associations panel
    Go to a file-type, mp3 for example
    Add a new program to handle it, give it an icon and a description
    Save this and exit
    Right click on a file of the type you edited and select open with
    Strange, the type you added is either not there, has the wrong name or icon, or doesn't work
    Go back and add the association again. You'll be warned it exists already (WHERE??). Overwrite it. Same crap again.
    Reboot.
    The association is completely gone.

    Anyone recommend a less shíte GUI (one of the *boxes?) that's easy enough to switch over to?


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