On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:47, Sascha Manns wrote:

Am Sonntag, 4. März 2012, 23:04:27 schrieb C:

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On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 13:38, C wrote:

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Does anyone have any idea where Ekiga hides its configuration? So.. does anyone have any clue where Ekiga is hiding its main configuration? Hmmm that is so... weird.  I don't understand gconf at all :-P  I rebooted and.. whiz bang, Ekiga picked up the config that was sitting in the .gconf/ekiga directory for hours beforehand. Weird that application level config changes are not picked up until after at least a logout/login. Thanks for that mail. That i have asked myself yesterday too. Maybe do you also know where Ekiga stores the Logindata for a Network?

It all seems to be in the same place... in $home/.gconf/ekiga Somehow Ekiga hangs on to whatever is in there and doesn't release or update itself if you manually change the contents. The documentation says to simply exit Ekiga, killall gconfd-2 and restart Ekiga to get it to re-read the manually changed configuration, but I've yet to be able to get it to do that... I have to logout/login to see the chanegs. The network login data is buried in the XML files in that directory. If you're manually changing or want to completely wipe the setup, then exit Ekiga, kill gconfd-2, delete/change the .gconf/ekiga directory and... logout/in I guess... unless you can discover what other process is running that makes Ekiga retain the settings it has read and kill that too. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:47, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

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Ekiga hangs on to whatever is in there and doesn't release or update itself if you manually change the contents.

No, Ekiga doesn't hang on to anything.  Ekiga uses the gconf *service* for configuration - it gets and sets config via the gconfd session daemon.  gconfd loads its databases when you start it an operates from RAM flushing changes to its persistent database.  So you can't change settings beneath it.  Use the gconf-tool and gconf-editor.

Uggh.. gconf-tool-2 is installed on my system... and it's unpleasant to use to say the least. I haven't installed gconf-editor. How do these line up with the fact that I simply wanted to "reuse" my old settings from a previous install (I re-installed my openSUSE system this past weekend, with a clean /home, copying over the settings (from my backup) I wanted to reuse/retain). The documentation here: http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Troubleshooting#I_reinstalled_Linux_and_I_wa... didn't seem to work as indicated which is what prompted me to question things. How can you use gconftool-2 to import old settings? I suppose I could have copied over the old settings *before* I launched Ekiga for the first time post-install, but... I didn't. It's not a big deal.. just trying to understand how it works.. since it's pretty much completely different than anything I usually use (generally KDE apps, but I do use GTK apps as well). C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org