From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Jan 21 18:29:03 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 97498ED5871 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2018 18:29:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) Received: from bca5.email-od.com (bca5.email-od.com [207.246.239.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5EAF476178 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2018 18:29:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1516559348; x=1519151348; h=x-thread-info:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=/XDG5AqZtclYbk+U2uZe+pLcQL2o7nCDxLJodK1thsI=; b=QA1AKGkU7rTEGdgV9BcvjkjVY4cvp5/hXmehJCS23+5lF06ejSfG9m5PkzsNhEl5aNEUzKDlOtNZMVweonzu+llvA5R/KThOg8n6HvPfvkfsK0ALW0QZuUBaWsRCgi5cgnuCWmrwK2cbASIn6pTfJH8Mc8ocUXkP9eupymffmJg= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi44YTAwMDAwMDEwZjdkZi5mcmVlYnNkLXF1ZXN0aW9ucz1mcmVlYnNkLm9yZw== Received: from r6.us-east.aws.in.socketlabs.com (r6.us-east.aws.in.socketlabs.com [34.193.32.0]) by bca2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Sun, 21 Jan 2018 13:28:57 -0500 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [89.127.62.20]) by r6.us-east.aws.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Sun, 21 Jan 2018 13:28:51 -0500 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.90 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1edKML-000EfO-UA; Sun, 21 Jan 2018 18:28:49 +0000 Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 18:28:49 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Polytropon Subject: Re: xfce4 reverts to mirrored dislays Message-Id: <20180121182849.e2a92f2e2173964d1e0bb678@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20180121144518.70198870.freebsd@edvax.de> 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> <20180121144518.70198870.freebsd@edvax.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.6.0 (GTK+ 2.24.31; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.0) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 18:29:03 -0000 On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 14:45:18 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > 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... ;-) Guess I'll be sticking with a straightforward window manager then. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith