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jt1122

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Registered: 2021-03-26

Posts: 240

Reloading displays.xml

Hi,

I've updated the displays profile (removed old monitors):
~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/displays.xml

The file gets over-written (with the outdated settings) presumably because new ones haven't been reloaded.

Is it possible to load the new file w/o logging out & in again?.

Thanks

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,017

Re: Reloading displays.xml

Unfortunately, no. That file is not meant to be edited while in a live session. If you need to edit the file to remove the errant entries, the best way to do it is to log out of Xfce (and log into a console tty session), make sure the xfconfd process isn't running, and then edit the file.

If you kill the xfconfd process in a live session it will automatically re-spawn.

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jt1122

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Registered: 2021-03-26

Posts: 240

Re: Reloading displays.xml

Thanks (apologizes for the erroneous 2nd post, not sure why 2 posts were sent).