Settings that don't stick

[Colin Law]

On 30 December 2010 19:18, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> ...
>> I wonder if this is a permissions issue.  I think those settings are
>> generally held in the hidden files and folders in the users home
>> directory.  Perhaps one or more have somehow become owned by root for
>> example and so cannot be written to by the user.
>>
> I did some poking around, but there don't appear to be any files of
> this nature at all - either I own the files or the ones that I don't
> own are root files that make sense (like some scripts I have in my bin
> dir that are for root running only).

You specifically mentioned the calculator as being one of the apps
that does not save its config.  The calculator settings are saved in
~/.gconf/apps/gcalctool/%gconf.xml, which is a text file you can look
in and see the calculator mode.  The other gconf apps are stored in
other folders here.  I still suspect there may be a permissions issue
there somewhere.  If you still cannot see it see if you can manually
edit that file.  Keep a copy first.

Colin