Re: [orca-list] Orca and settings in the GDM screen

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

What's strange here is this only happens with the gdm user account.  For 
normal other users, it all works fine.  You would think by this behavior 
that Orca doesn't think the settings were saved for some reason.

On 03/01/2011 09:48 AM, Dave Hunt wrote:
> I think we've found a bug:
>
> The date/time on '/var/lib/gdm/.local/share/orca/user-settings.conf' got
> updated when I started this machine this morning. Looks like this file
> gets rewritten on Orca startup?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
> On 03/01/2011 11:32 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > I think what is happening is the default settings keep getting written
> > back to the settings as if they never existed. I'm not sure why this
> > is happening. I never looked into that part of it so far. It seems
> > like to me that the initialization logic is being invoked every time
> > Orca is run, even if the configurations already exist. But as I write
> > outloud, I realize Orca isn't popping you into the preferences dialog
> > every time though so maybe what I just said may be contradictory. In
> > any case, the settings are being over-written every time the program
> > starts. Next time I go try to use gdm to run Orca, I'll have to
> > verify if the date/time of the settings files are being updated too.
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 02:42:24PM +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
> > > I can confirm that orca can write to the settings file:
> > > * It worked fine with 2.32.1
> > > * The git version creates the user-settings.conf file
> > > * When I manually modify the user-settings.conf file orca still
> > > reverts the settings back to the defaults.
> > > * ls -l /var/lib/gdm/.local/share/orca/user-settings.conf tells me
> > > the gdm user has permission to write to the file.
> > >
> > > Michael Whapples
> > > On -10/01/37 20:59, Halim Sahin wrote:
> > > > Hi Michael,
> > > > Have you checked that your orca has the right write access in your gdm
> > > > folder?
> > > >
> > > > What happens, when you copy your orca setting manualy?
> > > > BR.
> > > > Halim
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