Nautilus forgets its settings...

[sgage]

I have had this come up a couple of times so far in Fedora 16: Nautilus forgets its settings after I've set it to list view by default and to show hidden files. For a while (a day or two) all is well, but then it suddenly starts up with icon view, no hidden files. I set the preferences again, but next time it starts up, same thing. It also forgets its window size.

The only way that I've been able to find to fix this is to delete the dconf database (~/.config/dconf/user), which of course wipes out all kinds of other customization. Reinstalling nautilus does not help.

Anyway, it just happened again - it might have been associated with trying to add a bookmark.

Has anyone else seen this behavior?

[DBelton]

I have seen the window state not being honored after a reboot, and always starts maximized. Once i minimize it, then it honors the setting until I reboot again.

I have double checked to make certain that org.gnome.nautilus.window-state maximized is set to be off and it will still come up maximized the first time I start nautilus after a reboot.

I haven't looked into much other than filing a bug report since I am getting ready to throw Gnome into the bit-bucket anyway due to numerous other issues.

[Proxin]

I've had a similar issue with Gnome 3 on Fedora 16- I have the time displaying as AM/PM, while the default Fedora setting turns this to military time.
Occassionally, I'll look at the clock and it will say something like "15:48" instead of "3:48 PM" which I specifically set it to. Same thing happens with trackpad touch click; I have it enabled, but gnome decides to forget that and revert to default settings once in a while.
It really frustrates me because there is one setting that is essential to me... I'm running this on a laptop, and I went out of my way to set the "close lid" action to be "nothing", instead of turning my computer to sleep mode each time the lid is closed.
So when I get this glitch, I'll have to completely reboot so I can even close the lid of my laptop. Very annoying.

One temporary fix is to press alt+f2 and type 'r' to restart gnome shell. This fixes the time format for me, but not the sleep mode thing. I end up having to reboot each time this happens.
I really hope someone can help with these issues.

[cazo]

I've noticed the same issue as Proxin, until I realized that it happened when I launched gedit as root (using 'su -' in a terminal window, then running gedit from there). Certain programs seem to cause /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon (I think that's the one) to start up for 'root', and then gnome-shell seems to use root's default settings. As root, I made several changes using gsettings, like:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface clock-format 12h

which seems to have taken care of most of the problems. I don't recall if killing root's /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon made things like the clock format go back, since I also learned not to launch those programs as root anymore

Every once in a while, some programs also lose their settings (like window size). Killing my normal user's /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 (which usually respawns itself) normally takes care of it for me. One way I've found to tell it's time to kill is one window (usually gnome-terminal) will take up the background of the "Activities" view, instead of being 'tiled' like the others. I'm not sure if my description is very clear (unless you've seen it too), but I don't have a screenshot of that to post (I try to get one the next time I see it).

It may or may not be relevant, but I normally just 'suspend' (sometimes 'hibernate') my laptop instead of logging out and/or powering down. At least, until there's another kernel (or other important) update.

[Proxin]

Originally Posted by cazo

I've noticed the same issue as Proxin, until I realized that it happened when I launched gedit as root (using 'su -' in a terminal window, then running gedit from there). Certain programs seem to cause /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon (I think that's the one) to start up for 'root', and then gnome-shell seems to use root's default settings. As root, I made several changes using gsettings, like:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface clock-format 12h

which seems to have taken care of most of the problems. I don't recall if killing root's /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon made things like the clock format go back, since I also learned not to launch those programs as root anymore

Every once in a while, some programs also lose their settings (like window size). Killing my normal user's /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 (which usually respawns itself) normally takes care of it for me. One way I've found to tell it's time to kill is one window (usually gnome-terminal) will take up the background of the "Activities" view, instead of being 'tiled' like the others. I'm not sure if my description is very clear (unless you've seen it too), but I don't have a screenshot of that to post (I try to get one the next time I see it).

It may or may not be relevant, but I normally just 'suspend' (sometimes 'hibernate') my laptop instead of logging out and/or powering down. At least, until there's another kernel (or other important) update.

Looks like that's the cause for me as well- launching gedit from a 'su -' terminal prompt. I tried using your gsettings recommendation but that didn't fix it for me... same with going into standby mode.
Does anybody have a panacea fix for us with this problem?