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Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz]
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Persist monitors settings in Gome #107

Closed jankaifer closed 1 year ago

jankaifer commented 1 year ago

Gnome saves monitor configuration inside ~/.config/monitors.xml. Even when you add this file to your config, you need to make sure to copy valid monitors.xml into /persist/$HOME/.config/monitors.xml (or where you persist your files).

It will not work without that file in persistent storage and touch ing it won't work (empty file).

Feel free to close this issue. I just wanted to document this somewhere. But it would be great if we could minimize these manual interventions somehow (so that the only thing I need to add to /persist is my nixos config).

talyz commented 1 year ago

Indeed, this is by design. We can't reliably move already existent files to persistent storage for a few reasons, but mainly because they may already be in use, so this has to be a manual step. What we could do is create auto-generated cli commands to move directories and files, but it feels outside the scope of this issue.

In most cases it will work when you don't have a file in persistent storage, as then a symlink will be pointing to a non-existent file and it will then be created, but that might not be the case for monitors.xml.