[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#432820: Bug#432820: xfce4-mcs-manager: settings always crash with "mcs_manager_set_string: assertion `value != NULL' failed"

Simon Huggins huggie at earth.li
Thu Jul 12 08:16:42 UTC 2007


On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:01:22AM +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
> I installed the xfce4, logged in, tried to open the settings, nothing
> happened.

> Then I started xfce-mcs-manager in a terminal and got this:

> $ xfce-mcs-manager 

> (xfce-mcs-manager:22937): libxfce4util-WARNING **: Invalid
> XDG_CONFIG_HOME directory `/home/tkeitel/.config', program may behave
> incorrectly.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This is the problem.

> The settings don't work, rendering xfce4 qite unusable for me.

Try moving the .config file out of the way or if you have a .config
directory you don't have permission to write to then remove it or move
it out of the way.

If you then restart X things should be happier.

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