Panel opacity getting reset between sessions

bhrgunatha · 2019-08-31 04:37:24

My OS is Arch 64 bit using the Arch XFCE4 packages which is 4.14, which includes xfce4-panel 4.14.
I'm using compton as my compositor.

Since updating to 4.14 the panel opacity setting for "Leave" is getting reset to 100%.
My settings:
Style: Solid Colour
Colour : #000000 (Alpha is unchanged at 100%)
Opacity
Enter: 80%
Leave: 40%

When I restart XFCE or reboot the "Leave" setting is reset to 100% every time.

As an experiment I changed the alpha ratio in Colour.
That does affect the colour getting displayed, but that doesn't change the behaviour and Leave still gets reset to 100%.

Is this a bug or perhaps something I need to change?

ToZ · 2019-09-16 11:11:31

Is this the only setting that is reset?

Check the permission of the files in ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml to make sure they are all owned by you.
Can you also post back your user journal file for the last boot:

journalctl --user --no-pager -b2

And finally, change the opacity setting then run the following in a terminal window:

xfce4-panel -s

...and report back if any error messages are displayed.

bhrgunatha · 2019-09-17 11:56:50

Thanks for responding! Yes the only setting reverted is the Leave opacity.

ls -l ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf                    

total 4
drwx------ 2 bhrgunatha bhrgunatha 4096 Sep 17 19:38 xfce-perchannel-xml

I have read + write and ownership of all the files in that folder too.

After rebooting just now (was the -b2 switch a typo I can't imagine you wanted the second boot entry?):

journalctl --user --no-pager -b

-- Logs begin at Mon 2018-01-29 19:06:07 CST, end at Tue 2019-09-17 19:36:51 CST. --
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux systemd[681]: Reached target Paths.
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux systemd[681]: Reached target Timers.
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux systemd[681]: Starting D-Bus User Message Bus Socket.
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux systemd[681]: Listening on GnuPG network certificate management daemon.
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux systemd[681]: Listening on GnuPG cryptographic agent and passphrase cache (access for web browsers).
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux systemd[681]: Listening on GnuPG cryptographic agent and passphrase cache (restricted).
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux systemd[681]: Listening on GnuPG cryptographic agent (ssh-agent emulation).
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux systemd[681]: Listening on GnuPG cryptographic agent and passphrase cache.
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux systemd[681]: Listening on p11-kit server.
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux systemd[681]: Listening on Multimedia System.
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux systemd[681]: Listening on Sound System.
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux systemd[681]: Listening on D-Bus User Message Bus Socket.
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux systemd[681]: Reached target Sockets.
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux systemd[681]: Reached target Basic System.
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux systemd[681]: Starting Update XDG user dir configuration...
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux systemd[681]: xdg-user-dirs-update.service: Succeeded.
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux systemd[681]: Started Update XDG user dir configuration.
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux systemd[681]: Reached target Main User Target.
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux systemd[681]: Startup finished in 49ms.
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux systemd[681]: Started D-Bus User Message Bus.
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux dbus-daemon[697]: [session uid=1000 pid=697] Activating via systemd: service name='org.gtk.vfs.Daemon' unit='gvfs-daemon.service' requested by ':1.4' (uid=1000 pid=693 comm="xfce4-session ")
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux systemd[681]: Starting Virtual filesystem service...
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux dbus-daemon[697]: [session uid=1000 pid=697] Successfully activated service 'org.gtk.vfs.Daemon'
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux systemd[681]: Started Virtual filesystem service.
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux dbus-daemon[697]: [session uid=1000 pid=697] Activating via systemd: service name='org.a11y.Bus' unit='at-spi-dbus-bus.service' requested by ':1.7' (uid=1000 pid=693 comm="xfce4-session ")
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux systemd[681]: Starting Accessibility services bus...
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux dbus-daemon[697]: [session uid=1000 pid=697] Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.Bus'
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux systemd[681]: Started Accessibility services bus.
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux dbus-daemon[697]: [session uid=1000 pid=697] Activating service name='org.xfce.Xfconf' requested by ':1.4' (uid=1000 pid=693 comm="xfce4-session ")
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux dbus-daemon[697]: [session uid=1000 pid=697] Successfully activated service 'org.xfce.Xfconf'
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux at-spi-bus-launcher[721]: dbus-daemon[727]: Activating service name='org.a11y.atspi.Registry' requested by ':1.0' (uid=1000 pid=693 comm="xfce4-session ")
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux at-spi-bus-launcher[721]: dbus-daemon[727]: Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux at-spi-bus-launcher[721]: SpiRegistry daemon is running with well-known name - org.a11y.atspi.Registry
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux systemd[681]: Started GnuPG cryptographic agent and passphrase cache.
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux gpg-agent[753]: gpg-agent (GnuPG) 2.2.17 starting in supervised mode.
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux gpg-agent[753]: using fd 3 for std socket (/run/user/1000/gnupg/S.gpg-agent)
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux gpg-agent[753]: using fd 4 for browser socket (/run/user/1000/gnupg/S.gpg-agent.browser)
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux gpg-agent[753]: using fd 5 for extra socket (/run/user/1000/gnupg/S.gpg-agent.extra)
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux gpg-agent[753]: using fd 6 for ssh socket (/run/user/1000/gnupg/S.gpg-agent.ssh)
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux gpg-agent[753]: listening on: std=3 extra=5 browser=4 ssh=6
Sep 17 19:36:41 archlinux systemd[681]: Starting Sound Service...
Sep 17 19:36:42 archlinux dbus-daemon[697]: [session uid=1000 pid=697] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1' requested by ':1.17' (uid=1000 pid=779 comm="xfdesktop ")
Sep 17 19:36:42 archlinux dbus-daemon[697]: [session uid=1000 pid=697] Activating service name='ca.desrt.dconf' requested by ':1.22' (uid=1000 pid=797 comm="light-locker ")
Sep 17 19:36:42 archlinux dbus-daemon[697]: [session uid=1000 pid=697] Successfully activated service 'ca.desrt.dconf'
Sep 17 19:36:42 archlinux tumblerd[801]: Failed to load plugin "tumbler-odf-thumbnailer.so": libgsf-1.so.114: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Sep 17 19:36:42 archlinux tumblerd[801]: Failed to load plugin "tumbler-poppler-thumbnailer.so": libpoppler-glib.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Sep 17 19:36:42 archlinux tumblerd[801]: Failed to load plugin "tumbler-raw-thumbnailer.so": libopenrawgnome.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Sep 17 19:36:42 archlinux org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1[697]: Registered thumbnailer comicthumb %u %o %s
Sep 17 19:36:42 archlinux org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1[697]: Registered thumbnailer /usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer -s %s %u %o
Sep 17 19:36:42 archlinux org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1[697]: Registered thumbnailer /usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer -s %s %u %o
Sep 17 19:36:42 archlinux org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1[697]: Registered thumbnailer heif-thumbnailer -s %s %i %o
Sep 17 19:36:42 archlinux org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1[697]: Registered thumbnailer gnome-thumbnail-font --size %s %u %o
Sep 17 19:36:42 archlinux org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1[697]: Registered thumbnailer ffmpegthumbnailer -i %i -o %o -s %s -f
Sep 17 19:36:42 archlinux dbus-daemon[697]: [session uid=1000 pid=697] Activating via systemd: service name='org.gtk.vfs.UDisks2VolumeMonitor' unit='gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.service' requested by ':1.21' (uid=1000 pid=801 comm="/usr/lib/tumbler-1/tumblerd ")
Sep 17 19:36:42 archlinux systemd[681]: Starting Virtual filesystem service - disk device monitor...
Sep 17 19:36:42 archlinux dbus-daemon[697]: [session uid=1000 pid=697] Successfully activated service 'org.gtk.vfs.UDisks2VolumeMonitor'
Sep 17 19:36:42 archlinux systemd[681]: Started Virtual filesystem service - disk device monitor.
Sep 17 19:36:42 archlinux dbus-daemon[697]: [session uid=1000 pid=697] Activating via systemd: service name='org.gtk.vfs.AfcVolumeMonitor' unit='gvfs-afc-volume-monitor.service' requested by ':1.21' (uid=1000 pid=801 comm="/usr/lib/tumbler-1/tumblerd ")
Sep 17 19:36:42 archlinux systemd[681]: Starting Virtual filesystem service - Apple File Conduit monitor...
Sep 17 19:36:42 archlinux dbus-daemon[697]: [session uid=1000 pid=697] Successfully activated service 'org.gtk.vfs.AfcVolumeMonitor'
Sep 17 19:36:42 archlinux systemd[681]: Started Virtual filesystem service - Apple File Conduit monitor.
Sep 17 19:36:42 archlinux dbus-daemon[697]: [session uid=1000 pid=697] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1'
Sep 17 19:36:43 archlinux systemd[681]: Started Sound Service.
Sep 17 19:36:51 archlinux systemd[681]: run-user-620-gvfs.mount: Succeeded.
Sep 17 19:36:51 archlinux systemd[681]: run-user-620.mount: Succeeded.

After changing the opacity:

xfce4-panel -s

Note: No output

Last edited by bhrgunatha (2019-09-17 11:58:30)

bhrgunatha · 2020-05-13 05:31:44

Update in case anyone has the same problem.

Current versions of the main XFCE packages:
xfdesktop: 4.14.2
xfwm4: 4.14.2
xfce4-panel: 4.14.4

Since compton is deprecated I changed to picom (with no issues) but after recent system updates I started to get strange video artefacts like some parts of the screen flickering and rapidly re-painting.
I've heard the xfce compositor has improved and eliminated screen tearing so I've removed picom and use the built-in compositor.

The problem has now disappeared へ‿(ツ)‿ㄏ

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Panel opacity getting reset between sessions

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