On Mon, 18 May 2015 11:31:50 -0400 Stephen R Guglielmo <srguglie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm running Debian Stretch/testing (updated daily). I use Xfce4 and > Mousepad as my GUI text editor. It seems that Mousepad is no longer > saving my preferences. > > If I open a text document (either by File->Open or double-clicking > a file from the desktop), make changes to the preferences, close > Mousepad, and reopen it, the preferences revert back to the default > settings. > > For example, if I set the color scheme to Cobalt then close Mousepad, > when I open it again, the color scheme will be back to the default > "None." This happens for all the preferences, not just the color > scheme. > > I don't use Mousepad often. The last time I used it, this problem > didn't occur. It's been maybe a week or two since I've last used it. > If I recall correctly, I did install an update to it since then. > > Any ideas on how to investigate this? > > Thanks!
For any future reader: `sudo apt-get install dconf-gsettings-backend` solved it for me.
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