On Sun 01 Jan 2023 at 15:31:04 (-0600), William Torrez Corea wrote: > How to can restore my last configuration?
So I assume your "last configuration" is in ~/.config/xfce4-session/ and ~/.config/xfce4/ . > Try resetting to defaults I assume that by this you mean "move my configuration out the way and left a new set of defaults be created by running xfce", ie move: > mv ~/.config/xfce4-session/ ~/.config/xfce4-session-bak > mv ~/.config/xfce4/ ~/.config/xfce4-bak and then run xfce. > When i want to restore the old configuration, i remove the -bak that's > been appended to the old directories; but i don't get any result. I assume that means you typed something like: mv ~/.config/xfce4-session-bak/ ~/.config/xfce4-session mv ~/.config/xfce4-bak/ ~/.config/xfce4 That depends with how you define "result". As far as file manipulation is concerned, files /are/ moved. However, you don't appear to have investigated /where/ they are moved. Why not look at: ls -l ~/.config/xf* and observe that your own configuration finish in the wrong place, and are probably ignored by xfce. --✄------ $ emacs /tmp/myconfig/file{1,2} # create my config files (size 32) $ ls -Glg /tmp/myconfig/ total 8 -rw-r----- 1 32 Jan 1 16:45 file1 -rw-r----- 1 32 Jan 1 16:45 file2 $ mv -i /tmp/myconfig/ /tmp/myconfig-bak # move out of the way $ ls -Glg /tmp/myconfig-bak/ total 8 -rw-r----- 1 32 Jan 1 16:45 file1 -rw-r----- 1 32 Jan 1 16:45 file2 $ emacs /tmp/myconfig/file{1,2} # simulate xfce creating its default config (size 14) $ ls -Glg /tmp/my* # (emacs asks to create /tmp/myconfig/ when first file is saved) /tmp/myconfig: total 8 -rw-r----- 1 14 Jan 1 16:48 file1 ← "default" config -rw-r----- 1 14 Jan 1 16:47 file2 /tmp/myconfig-bak: total 8 -rw-r----- 1 32 Jan 1 16:45 file1 ← my moved config -rw-r----- 1 32 Jan 1 16:45 file2 $ mv -i /tmp/myconfig-bak/ /tmp/myconfig # Intention: to restore my configuration files $ ls -GlgR /tmp/my* /tmp/myconfig: total 12 -rw-r----- 1 14 Jan 1 16:48 file1 ← "default" files still in active position -rw-r----- 1 14 Jan 1 16:47 file2 drwxr-x--- 2 4096 Jan 1 16:45 myconfig-bak ← this is what mv actually did /tmp/myconfig/myconfig-bak: total 8 -rw-r----- 1 32 Jan 1 16:45 file1 ← so my configuration files are -rw-r----- 1 32 Jan 1 16:45 file2 ← "hidden" in this subdirectory $ Cheers, David.