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#269 Configuration item `startdir_mode` is ignored

v1.0_(example)
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nobody
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2023-01-30
2023-01-11
Michael Allan
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Configuration item startdir_mode is ignored. Regardless it starts in the home directory.

Seen with version 1.44.

Discussion

  • Roland Baudin

    Roland Baudin - 2023-01-15

    I can't reproduce the bug. Perhaps you had another Xfe instance opened when you tested?
    Could you test again, please?

     

  • Michael Allan

    Michael Allan - 2023-01-24

    This is repeatable for me. (1) Change Edit|Preferences|Modes to ‘Start in the last visited folder’. (2) Move in the Folders tree to directory ~/tmp/. (3) Select File|Quit. (4) Verify that no other instance of XFE was running. (5) Verify that file ~/.config/xfe/xferc contains startdir_mode=2, as opposed to the usual 0. (6) Start XFE.

    It starts in directory ~/, not the expected ~/tmp/.

    In case it matters, I notice that file ~/.config/xfe/xferc (attached) contains two entries for lastdir: the first under [RIGHT PANEL] is equal to /home/mike, the second under [LEFT PANEL] is equal to
    /home/mike/tmp.

     
    xferc_local

  • Michael Allan

    Michael Allan - 2023-01-24

    It’s also repeatable (as above) if I delete ~/.config/xfe/xferc and let it default to an unaltered copy of the global configuration file /usr/share/xfe/xferc (attached).

     
    xferc_global

  • Roland Baudin

    Roland Baudin - 2023-01-28

    Thanks for the details and the config file, however I still can't reproduce the bug, with Xfe 1.44.
    I tried the three options with your config file, and everything is OK for me. What system do you use?

     

  • Michael Allan

    Michael Allan - 2023-01-30

    I’m using Gentoo. I see that XFE lost its maintainer.
    https://bugs.gentoo.org/847253

    Nowhere to go from here, I think. Not for a minor bug.
    Thanks for answering, though.

     

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