xfce4 reverts to mirrored dislays

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Sat Jan 20 16:09:51 UTC 2018


On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 16:46:16 +0100, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> When I start X all is dandy, likewise if I exit X and come back.
> *But*, if I leave my workplace with X running long enough for the
> monitors to power down, when they are powered up again the display is
> mirrored and ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/displays.xml is
> overwritten no matter how I try to make it read only.
> 
> Not sure what script could help me with this?
> Is there a known way to lock this file?

As root, chown the file to root:wheel, then make it r--/r--/r--,
and finally use chflags to apply the noschg flag. This should
make the file immutable to any write attempts.



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