Re: [PATCH 0/2] PSPP shared library refinements

[John Darrington]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 12:06:39AM +0100, Bojo42 wrote:
> Am 01.02.2012 09:13, schrieb John Darrington:
>> On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 01:28:25AM +0100, Bojo42 wrote:
>>>> However for psppire, the last chosen size of the window is saved in 
>>>> the user's config and used for subsequent runs. This way, once he  
>>>> sets the window dimensions how he likes them, he will get continue  
>>>> to get those dimensions until he changes them again. 
>>> That's also not working, i get a small window on each startup with no 
>>> opened files. 
>> Then there is a problem. Can you check that after you have run  
>> psppire, a directory called "psppirerc" exists in your XDG_CONFIG_HOME  
>> directory. This is normally set to $HOME/.config - but I notice Debian  
>> has pacakges which fiddle with this setting - perhaps that's  
>> interacting with psppire in an adverse way?
>
> Hmm that is all kind of weird, first XDG_CONFIG_HOME was not in my  
> enviroment, so i did got this correct. I also found that  
> "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/psppirerc" but was a file not a dir:

I should have written "file", NOT "directory".  Sorry for the confusion.

> After resizing the windows  the file didn't change at all, neither did  
> startup size and position. So i tried deleting it, but now it won't get  
> created again.

Can you put some diagnostics in src/ui/gui/psppire-conf.c

In particular, make sure that flush_conf is getting called.
And find out to where it's writing (if anywhere).

Thanks.

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