From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Jan 20 19:08:50 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 54405EC0CE8 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2018 19:08:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.130]) (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 B1A753A81 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2018 19:08:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r56.edvax.de ([92.195.18.98]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue007 [212.227.15.167]) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0M4gBt-1f1vL00nbZ-00z2ba; Sat, 20 Jan 2018 20:08:47 +0100 Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 20:08:46 +0100 From: Polytropon To: Per olof Ljungmark Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xfce4 reverts to mirrored dislays Message-Id: <20180120200846.e0925689.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: 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> 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:B98N8hxFE0CAyvs9NRM7dshR5o5p5GIFkFs9uj18cfO+dDj31US /4AvO45wN43K5SlORX4MF3rVlQHvS0jxFDBxQX/MlLN8uI03nwifXh5qhXpYdfg+T6Tewdx gQbuqcQ9UUfXB+byQLLv3oq6RdS4pHM6FtQF1MsjnovcaWCNtH8mFJmQLizIr6zP5A0YZi/ eQ0/CVva+G2lDXr5+fGUQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:K9QHhldalOQ=:MXpKJ3ChlTnugg+n4Ud5Uf ue6qVDECFEpJEmmkYiZBreXfndAsg16vL7EdWuG+v1QXDH3N0wjaLha1MyOFjud6eM+WZwu1M MwYEfs0nEk0LOOfnq0sVgYxeAT194EcLmkwnvzpWA87KznSUnJMi+v2ERgzV3ygUfZR8f/NDZ Ja0xpm72/XagNZpqLID6mkWME0kq/Zm1pk1omnT93/MD0f70pkHI+jfbcqWEHA7LLsBxuC1PQ 6xJ1uVDliAH7pptJxJ6JEBUTD75gHlQbSybOySMwlcka1OxAHYL53UED3HoKgwW6FIc4Xllcd v07rqMfGqvJdQWeTVkaz35GKHPzlHUi6uGSkkc8grjyWB4d7VRFaG6e9kRf3IRFo2Louq8rJh T732LNaHTy9EdwERgtfcszfwWdU94tVjrnXj+BUxwdqTlqXj/YD6iwTSk1YI5t6lDNuXhAG6z Vsh0qv3JblE/KPUKAxChx3XGB2YfpJArkwMH7HMxUprsWczXTWM4MDNq7BKlb+1VU2rVXmrrf ZAz8scq/mp1L7ZI1rAihGrvA0d+BV01t0GuGVEZlAgVFH/Y3sdIAi+mu5WbxQ5CU5tIWZ8Pfb +f8ccBMIOl29XLNg6fRUEAOToI8vL4Sq1v/+m8LjJYPYsqFzGpNd6Q6KDaPJI+U2qhY6aQl6W 4bwtE3ERIoh7KpNaOSbIpVb8chuCpooYp/OlR2T6sZZAIX5lFICVBosedKleuOmGgTkgxqvMX kTQqrSlgh1kLHyl7fMpVCXRcbdq7qxL/4WRySf9bEKHz0ocKjEAwb2hRYhU= 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: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 19:08:50 -0000 On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 19:42:37 +0100, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > On 01/20/18 19:06, Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 18:19:20 +0100, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > >> I did, but believe it not, the display still comes up mirrered and when > >> I change it back to "Right-of" the file changes ownership to 644 and my > >> username. > > > > Are you sure the file already was immutable? Indeed, a tmp file could be > > more important than the real config, but actually it's impossible > > to change permissions of an immutable file. > > > >> Sigh. > >> > >> I think I'll open the bug upstream instead. > > > > Don't waste your time with desktop environments! Migrate to a WM that > > comes close to your needs and then spend some time to build your > > personal DE. There's no need for programming skills, you only need to > > know what you need, to google and to chose the window manager you need > > + a few scripts to optimize it regarding your needs. > > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel uarch 1412 Jan 20 18:17 displays.xml As it seems, the immutable flag is not set. See "man chflags", set the "schg" flag for that particular file. This will make all other attributes immune to any attempt to change them (owner, group, permissions). Check with "ls -lo" that the flag has been set. > I am perfectly happy with xfce in all other aspects and I do not want to > change. In fact, I use xfce together with a lot of utilities from KDE > and I really like the environment, it is very productive for me. I > rather live with this anomaly than change wm. Then stay with Xfce. However, the strange behaviour you're experiencing is far from understandable... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...