xfce4-settings-4.11.3 emerged fine, but does not work: Neither did it set my stored settings when logging in, nor did changes in some settings dialog change anything. Examples: * Everything has the system default appearance. My private appearance settings are ignored, theme changes in the appearance dialog are also ignored. * My private global keyboard shortcuts are not recognized. Downgrading to xfce4-settings-4.11.2-r1 solved the problem, but 4.11.2-r1 has already been removed from the tree. I did not find any error messages related to the problem.
Please post your `emerge --info xfce-base/xfce4-settings' output in a comment.
Two notes: 1.) The emerge --info below ist for the working 4.11.2-r1, because I can't work with the broken 4.11.3. 2.) I think the change you made to the summary is not correct: I believe the changes made in the settings dialogs *are* stored correctly in the xfce configuration files. I believe the settings stored in the xfce configuration files simply do not take effect, i.e. they do not influence the running system or the session at next login. Examples (see original bug report): * I've configured my own desktop theme. The appearance settings dialog shows my theme as the currently selected theme, but nevertheless everything is displayed using the system's default theme, not my theme. * Changing the theme in the settings dialog usually changes the appearance of all windows immediately. With 4.11.3, changing the theme in the settings dialog is accepted in the dialog (and stored in the configuration if I remember correctly), but the windows do not switch themes as they should. * The settings dialog shows all my keyboard shortcuts correctly, and it is even possible to edit them. However, no keyboard shortcuts are actually assigned to any keys, neither those shortcuts already stored before nor those edited. To me it seems that the settings daemon isn't doing its job. All the settings dialogs seem to be fine. Portage 2.2.13 (python 2.7.8-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.8.3, glibc-2.19-r1, 3.16.2-hardened-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.16.2-hardened-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-3940XM_CPU_@_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 32907164 total, 31916428 free KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free Timestamp of tree: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 07:15:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.24 p1.4) 2.24 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p47 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/python: 2.7.8, 3.3.5-r1 dev-util/cmake: 3.0.2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.13.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6, 1.14.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.24-r3 sys-devel/gcc: 4.8.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2-r1 sys-devel/make: 4.0-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.16 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 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Analyzed the problem: 1.) All the problems are caused because xfsettingsd fails at session startup, and without it, no settings are applied. 2.) There are two different ways to have xfsettingsd started at login, both controlled by the xfce "session and startup" configuration dialog. a) By adding xfsettingsd to the "application autostart" list. b) By having it started as part of the saved last session. My system was configured to start xfsettingsd using b) only, i.e. as part of the saved session, and not a), i.e. xfsettingsd was not in the autostart list. When started as part of the saved session, xfsettingsd is started with two options: --sm-client-id and --display (Xfce appends these two options to all programs in the saved session) This worked fine up to xfsettingsd 4.11.2, but not with 4.11.3: xfsettingsd 4.11.3 does not understand --display and terminates immediately. Xfce startup retries to start it 20 times and then gives up. Hence, no xfsettingsd and no settings applied. Switching to start method a), i.e. registering xfsessiond for autostart, partially solves the problem: It results in a running xfsettingsd and a desktop with all settings applied. However, there are two problems: * xfsettingsd is started by autostart without any options, hence without --sm-client-id. I don't know what consequences it has if xfsettingsd does not know the session id. * On logout, it is stored as part of the current session. Hence, in spite of being autostarted, on the next login Xfce tries to start it as part of the saved session, resulting in 40 error message lines (20 retries) syslogged.
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11188 Please add the proposed patches to the ebuild.
Fixed by upstream in 4.12. Upgrading to the latest version in portage should fix this issue.
It did.
Thanks for the info.
