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[Locked] Dock settings not being saved [Bug #262]
mcncsrh English 4 Guest [Read]
15 March 2015 à 00:08

mcncsrh, Wednesday 22 February 2012 à 02:59


Subscription date : 22 February 2012
Messages : 4
Ubuntu 11.10
Gnome3

I have the Notification Area docked on the top of the screen. For some reason it wont save any changes I make to it in the dock editor. If I change the Icon of the Notification Area applet, it saves the filename and changes it but when I reboot it defaults back to the original icon (but the icon file is still set in the editor for my custom icon).

It also doesn't save visibility settings for the top dock. I want it below all the time, but it resets to default.

I've got the proper permissions set for the .config/ so it should be saving there. Any idea? I could provide a screenshot or desktop video if I need to.

Thanks in advance.

matttbe, Wednesday 22 February 2012 à 21:06


Subscription date : 24 January 2009
Messages : 12573
Yes, this is strange

Maybe only one file doesn't have write permissions? What's the output of this command launched from a terminal?
ls -l ~/.config/cairo-dock/current_theme/

mcncsrh, Thursday 23 February 2012 à 01:50


Subscription date : 22 February 2012
Messages : 4
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mcncsrh mcncsrh 21924 2012-02-22 16:46 cairo-dock.conf
-rwxrwxrwx 1 mcncsrh mcncsrh 3936 2012-02-22 16:11 cairo-dock-simple.conf
drwxrwxrwx 4 mcncsrh mcncsrh 4096 2012-02-21 07:18 extras
drwxrwxrwx 2 mcncsrh mcncsrh 4096 2012-02-22 16:11 icons
drwxrwxrwx 2 mcncsrh mcncsrh 4096 2012-02-22 16:11 images
drwxrwxrwx 2 mcncsrh mcncsrh 4096 2012-02-22 16:11 launchers
-rwxrwxrwx 1 mcncsrh mcncsrh 2891 2012-02-22 16:11 _MainDock_-2.conf
-rwxrwxrwx 1 mcncsrh mcncsrh 2897 2012-02-22 16:11 _New Dock_.conf.bak
drwxrwxrwx 40 mcncsrh mcncsrh 4096 2012-02-22 16:43 plug-ins
-rwxrwxrwx 1 mcncsrh mcncsrh 32318 2012-02-22 16:11 preview
-rwxrwxrwx 1 mcncsrh mcncsrh 40 2012-02-22 16:11 readme


I actually had to go into /usr/share/cairo-dock and change the notification PNG file to what I wanted manually. It must be saving it, because the file name stays in the custom image box, but for some reason until I hit "apply" after rebooting it wont change it. It will always use the default until I hit "apply".

Also, every time I hit apply it will double the items in the sub-dock. I'm not sure if this is a known issue or not.

fabounet, Friday 02 March 2012 à 12:37


Subscription date : 30 November 2007
Messages : 17118
thanks for reporting this (it's probably a bug)
I open a task for it.

Guest, Sunday 15 March 2015 à 00:08

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Subjects Author Language Messages Last message
[Locked] Dock settings not being saved [Bug #262]
mcncsrh English 4 Guest [Read]
15 March 2015 à 00:08


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