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father2303

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Registered: 2023-02-17

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[SOLVED] Ristretto not remembering settings

Hello,

i got directed to this forum by the maintainer of ristretto. https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/ristretto/ … note_65932

I'm using ristretto 0.12.3 with Nixos 22.11. All settings that i change in ristretto (e.g. thumbnail bar position, default zoom etc.) are not saved and are always back to their default values after i close and restart ristretto.

There is no error output if i run ristretto in the terminal. However, there is an output that the maintainer of ristretto did not expect:

~ ❯ find ~ ! -user $USER
/home/sperber/Dokumente/Install/Linux/Nixos/configuration.nix

Does anyone have an idea what the reason for this behaviour could be?

Last edited by KBar (2023-02-18 05:05:33)

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: [SOLVED] Ristretto not remembering settings

Hello and welcome.

ristretto saves its settings in xfconf. Do you have xfconf installed and the xfconfd process running on your system?

Try this:

xfconf-query -c ristretto -mv

...then start ristretto, make a configuration change, close the program and post back the output from the previous command.

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father2303

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Registered: 2023-02-17

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Ristretto not remembering settings

Problem solved, thanks!

xfconf has to be explicitly enabled in Nixos like this:

programs.xfconf.enable = true;

Enabling tumbler may also be useful:

services.tumbler.enable = true;