"Show again on startup" not saving setting

[ElijahLynn]

After each restart, Gromit shows the help screen again, even after unchecking "show again on startup". I am using the Arch package if that makes a difference:

# Maintainer: Kyle Keen <keenerd@gmail.com>

pkgname=gromit-mpx-git
_gitname=gromit-mpx
pkgver=1.2.r7.g295a34b
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Desktop annotation tool. GTK3 multi-pointer variant of original gromit utility."
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="https://github.com/bk138/gromit-mpx"
license=("GPL2")
depends=('libappindicator-gtk3')
makedepends=('cmake')
provides=('gromit')
conflicts=('gromit')
source=("git://github.com/bk138/gromit-mpx.git")
md5sums=('SKIP')

pkgver() {
    cd "$srcdir/$_gitname"
    git describe --long --tags | sed -r 's/([^-]*-g)/r\1/;s/-/./g'
}

build() {
    cd "$srcdir/$_gitname"
    cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
    make
}

package() {
    cd "$srcdir/$_gitname"
    make DESTDIR="$pkgdir/" install
}

[ElijahLynn]

I see in the gromit-mpx.ini it was last modified 2 days ago, I am going to manually change it and see if it sticks.

[ElijahLynn]

K, that worked, so it seems somehow it isn't saving that setting on my system. I just verified again, by setting it to true in the GUI but it isn't modifying the ini file. The ini permissions have write access and gromit is running as my user for the write permissions.

[ElijahLynn]

K, seems like what is happening is that it saves to the config/ini not upon "apply" but only after "apply" AND you exit the program (this is when the write happens). On my system, what was likely happening is that on a restart, it didn't get closed the right way, maybe it was a SIGTERM instead of a SIGINT?

The workaround for now is to manually edit ~/.config/gromit-mpx.ini or manually close it from the systray and then it will stick.

[bk138]

OK, thanks for the info.

[jgrocha]

Nice work @ElijahLynn
Same problem here, on Ubuntu 19.10. The .config/gromit-mpx.ini is written only if the user quits the application. With a regular reboot/shutdown, the config file is never written. Only after a few days, I decided to check what was going on.

[jfcaron3]

This is still a bug in 1.4.2 (in Linux Mint 21). The workaround of manually closing gromit-mpx at least once seems to have worked.