From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Jan 21 13:45:28 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8107CECB27B for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2018 13:45:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.131]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mout.kundenserver.de", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 045856C4C8 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2018 13:45:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r56.edvax.de ([92.195.18.98]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue006 [212.227.15.167]) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0MbWyG-1eKd7S0nAK-00IjtM; Sun, 21 Jan 2018 14:45:18 +0100 Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 14:45:18 +0100 From: Polytropon To: Ralf Mardorf Cc: Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions Subject: Re: xfce4 reverts to mirrored dislays Message-Id: <20180121144518.70198870.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20180121063733.6d93c266@archlinux.localdomain> References: <20180120125636.6ad88128.freebsd@edvax.de> <20180120134001.65ddb697@archlinux.localdomain> <20180120141518.7a85ed99@planb.netng.org> <2c24a50e-c7d1-0841-bee6-9f015d48a927@nethead.se> <20180120170942.532834dd.freebsd@edvax.de> <20180120190647.01b163d0@archlinux.localdomain> <20180120200846.e0925689.freebsd@edvax.de> <20180120202134.7e20734b@archlinux.localdomain> <20180121013136.3bf3440a.freebsd@edvax.de> <20180121051426.4879cab4@archlinux.localdomain> <20180121060443.5c3c16c7@archlinux.localdomain> <20180121063733.6d93c266@archlinux.localdomain> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:saHUp0ABrnTOx1j+swczP7ILo+u8koA5P2jMlNCEpmfevlHKe2H 2uwKSLHtnsZYHJwv8R5Jg7Om8iFHjRcYTvayicF8oYvB6x1zt6pU43nUBuS5H6+7YgmzDZQ 03krTZyNt3hPWjxLbcJFfm1Q7VksTLfjUvfMv/WHd6nfoYA1UX7GsZXDS0Cj4DIwY+fzvp3 +0mtomWG5oxV0oQk4eiug== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:H/TDm0eEMNU=:2ScZrj0OJ3+U/YULfwWRC6 7f9TBnz0jHmwtnDXNM85F5xwWUmpC0sg3vQVIp7QTn8Kx8gC3SnIfg8LFZ80rkke3ACvl0gOq NXcokw465xTjXZSna58JuAeYBLtyXWOSjEarj4KZk3hhaQ1Y4kRUK6JsdLbaEB5YonJRcbHTN SkKcyay6dMeKzfrnbZsab3LfCSpqr2ZPnPSFIuah9NRT2unfrTnrEInclNTJUnhLEguht2NwB pPln+6snH8zT0UmKylaFtnVRAzbEuE6GrhL0cVKeBbteFbeqqONczBkvyOO/aukPymCuQwLki vo8DfSPf7DXiIXkoh32bboDOoLBd9t0/T+ja6gD15gWMYzmwZ8jWN2HK84RaCLD8d0smUa3FU I/CnCKT5yZwqsY+W1isSwF2VNnZkH64t0BOXvCn+/tzJE3Gbl5CKNya2ou49AOkS9uvRtWij1 czCB60FrclaER4nFeWQUWPpDkFZ7K3zbfrlXallFgnz1sTCljaUk9h8U7yIAC2DvDjsvayrjF zKekZ4UFk0aQ/zM7ub4n8aQ6RPuK3/ltuoi04lgm+ReSXyxBJhB2m5mPawHFiCPQHWkCM4yX9 0mSID6u3pRvewYqk3+ZDh8EfvMxrB8mHCFOo7G5gIXumOdAgwfeqfuVT83sUt/PqM/IqPVCS4 /ha+RaymCkFV/DZUYaM2N0T6IP1QFDjhlOKRbru7+doqv+Z6xXTKq0/KFr+pHDH5aWXAL8wLM HiPL6IJnDSAYsZZTv2QTBDMCe7QvhZFKo0jWqr55Ap/mkkGJq6Adp7hkzhQ= X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 13:45:28 -0000 On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 06:37:33 +0100, Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 06:04:43 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >Btw. an example for a config vs tmp/file > > > >https://sourceforge.net/p/xffm/discussion/241332/thread/a825374c/?limit=25 > > > >;D > > I forgot to point out, that as soon as dconf is involved, completely > idiotic things could happen, e.g. turning on the bell of a > terminal emulation could be impossible using the dconf command or > gsettnings, this means it's completely impossible using command line, > before you first created a profile using the terminal's GUI, this is > independent from the dbus-launch issue. Note! Xfce is migrating from > GTK2 to GTK3, so if it shouldn't already happened, soon or later dconf > will be the config. Going back to the "Windows" kind of "registry" will probably be the way future desktop environments will store settings, sadly. Modifying plain files to achieve something the original developer didn't include in the "GUI wizard" responsible for altering the "registry" will no longer be possible. There is nothing wrong with this approach - if you want an opaque, unpredictable, unstabe, incomprehensible and buggy system... ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...