Bug 145121

Summary:	desktop names revert to old settings when kwin is restarted
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Bob Klaase <b.klaase>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	cbell44
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Bob Klaase 2007-05-06 23:59:35 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc 4.1.1-r3 
OS:                Linux

this thread says it all:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=506180

Desktopnames are reverting to old settings everytime kwin restarts.

a few things I did found out:

- only my main user has this problem, the 'guest' user doesn't, so it's not system wide.
- switching from beryl to kwin, also resets the desktop names to the 'stuck' settings.

another discovery:
the file ~/.kde/share/config/kwinrc contains the desktop names in my case:


[Desktops] 
 Name_1=1
 Name_2=2
 Name_3=3 Name_4=4
 Number=4


These are the names I myself configured. When I let the kde startup sequence crash (Making this file read-only works) the names are used. However on a kde startup were all goes "well", kde uses a different set of desktop names. I really would like to know which file is doing this, so I can delete it. It doens't contain the words "Name_", or any of the values it assigns to the four desktops, so I suppose it is encoded in some way.. or binairy or something..

Comment 1 Lubos Lunak 2007-05-07 12:00:57 UTC

Config file kwinrc is the place where the virtual desktop names and their count are stored. I don't know why they should be reset for you, it works fine here. Maybe you have some local modifications (as the fact that it works for another user suggests).

Comment 2 Bob Klaase 2007-05-08 11:12:35 UTC

Yes, it very probably reduces to that. However I have grepped and searched quite thoroughly. I was hoping someone here knew the problem or could point me in a direction. For example, what lines would a script have to contain to change these names, and where would it have to be located?

Comment 3 Charles T Bell 2009-07-30 00:35:02 UTC

This bug is a real pain in the ass.  At version 4.2.2 in KDE it is still evident. Exactly when is someone going to get working on solving this????
Kubunut 9.04, Jaunty Jackalope.

Comment 4 lucas 2009-07-30 03:32:15 UTC

Are you sure it doesn't work? I remember fixing this 7 months, 2 weeks ago:

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 172869 ***

Comment 5 Charles T Bell 2009-07-31 23:47:19 UTC

I can assure you that it is happening as I stated.  Every time
I logon, the number and names of the desktops revert(s) to the default.

Tom

 Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?  -- Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal), Roman Poet, late 1st, early 2nd century AD
("Who will protect us from the protectors?")

Lucas Murray wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145121
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> Lucas Murray <lmurray@undefinedfire.com> changed:
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>            What    |Removed                     |Added
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>              Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
>          Resolution|                            |DUPLICATE
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> --- Comment #4 from Lucas Murray <lmurray undefinedfire com>  2009-07-30 03:32:15 ---
> Are you sure it doesn't work? I remember fixing this 7 months, 2 weeks ago:
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> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 172869 ***
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