#881 [lxappearance] removes symbolic links

[Ralf Mardorf]

Hi,

I'm not using LXDE, but openbox with LXDE tools, so I noticed an issue related to:

$ pacman -Q lxappearance{,-obconf}
lxappearance 0.6.3-1
lxappearance-obconf 0.2.3-1

On my Arch Linux install I start openbox sessions using a wrapper, to be able to chose openbox with different profiles. Among other things the wrapper creates links, e.g.

$ ls -Ggh .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini .gtkrc-2.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 60 Aug 14 17:02 .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini -> .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini_openbox-profile-lcd-realignment
lrwxrwxrwx 1 42 Aug 14 17:02 .gtkrc-2.0 -> .gtkrc-2.0_openbox-profile-lcd-realignment

$ ls -Ggh .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini*lcd* .gtkrc-2.0*lcd*
-rw-r--r-- 1  60 Aug  8 07:57 .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini_openbox-profile-lcd-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 438 Aug 14 13:51 .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini_openbox-profile-lcd-realignment
-rw-r--r-- 1 152 Aug  8 07:57 .gtkrc-2.0_openbox-profile-lcd-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 609 Aug 14 13:51 .gtkrc-2.0_openbox-profile-lcd-realignment

Instead of following those symbolic links, lxappearance does replace the links with files.
IMO this is a bug, not a feature. For a variety of reasons users might want to use links.

Funnily enough, it does follow the $HOME/.config/openbox link.

Regards,
Ralf