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Hi,
After updating to Mageia 9 (mga applet) from Mageia 8, configuration of colors for windows is not saved to the next login. Is it a known bug? Where are personal settings saved?

I've selected oxygen cold for the colors of windows, everything changes in a session but after logout / login this choice is lost.

Thanks

Some more informations are required. What desktop environment do you use, plasma ?
Also for window colors, did you only change the color theme?
And what windows are affected by this ? Some screenshot with an explanation what you actually mean would also help.

FWIW, I cannot reproduce. I've selected breeze dark als global design and the window colors are dark grey/black in every session, also after logout / login.

Hi, doktor5000.
It is likely to be something wrong that I did when I was attempting to set the colors last three times . Today, the settings was OK. I apologize for this incomplete report and an apparent false alarm.
Any way, I use plasma, I've seen this in all windows (firefox, gvim, dolphin, etc).
I thank you, doktor5000, for the help! If I finally find out what was my mistake, I'll post here.

Please don't forget to mark the thread as done, by editing the subject of the first post and prefix it with [DONE], thanks in advance.

Hi, doktor5000,

I have a better description of the problem. Settings does hold after logout/login but does not after turn out / turn on. I've turned on the computer and settings was dismissed, then I did as follows:
First, this is a screenshot of the konsole before remaking the settings:

This is what I get after remaking the settings:

This is after logout/logon:

Finally, when I turn out/ turn on again I'm back to the first case where settings were dismissed.

I think that updating Mageia from 8 to 9 was not fully done and upon turning on the computer some Mageia 8 files are reused.

Thanks and I will not mark this as solved yet. Maybe someone else can say something about this and hopefully it is of a very minor problem.
If someone find it important I can file a bug on it.

adhefe wrote:I think that updating Mageia from 8 to 9 was not fully done and upon turning on the computer some Mageia 8 files are reused.

That would probably be your settings in your /home as the color change works otherwise.

You may want to reproduce this with a freshly created user.

If you want to use your own color scheme you need to tick the box "Custom" and your setting will stick over a restart. See needed settings in screenshot. You left "Use accent color: From current color scheme" ticked, and thats why your settings get reverted to the standard colors from the scheme.

sturmvogel wrote:If you want to use your own color scheme you need to tick the box "Custom" and your setting will stick over a restart. See needed settings in screenshot. You left "Use accent color: From current color scheme" ticked, and thats why your settings get reverted to the standard colors from the scheme.

Screenshot_20230910_133045.png

Surprisingly simple solution! Thanks, sturmvogel.

But, I'm back to the Breeze light even with the choice sturmvogel suggested.
This is similar to this,
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/t ... me_exactly
and I'm still wondering where KDE picks up its settings when during boot (not restart!).

adhefe wrote:But, I'm back to the Breeze light even with the choice sturmvogel suggested.
This is similar to this,
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/t ... me_exactly
and I'm still wondering where KDE picks up its settings when during boot (not restart!).

It is not every second boot but every second logon that triggers the problem.
doktor5000 suggested trying with a new fresh user. I removed an old user (home + everything) and add a new one with the same login.
For this new user, changes in color was OK after logoff + logon once but after logoff + login again
1- the system has frozen;
2- upon CRTL+ALT+F2 and login with the new user, CRTL+ALT+F1 showed that the new user area was shown but no decorations and options to close, expand the windows was available.

Is it something to the bug a file in bugzilla?

adhefe wrote:It is not every second boot but every second logon that triggers the problem.

Which is basically the same for most people who only have one user.
On a related note, there has to be something more to it, as otherwise I'd also be affected as I'm using a non-default color scheme (BreezeDark), and it has not changed to anything else yet.

As it was already reported for a different distro, it's probably better to report it upstream: https://bugs.kde.org/

Apart from that, do you get any meaningful output if you change the color scheme with

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plasma-apply-colorscheme <colorscheme>

Apart from that, do you get any meaningful output if you change the color scheme with

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plasma-apply-colorscheme <colorscheme>

No. It is the same. Every second logon settings are dismissed. I've tried Breeze dark with no difference as well.
I've noticed that none of the files in .config directory (arkrc, gtkrc, etc) changes Breeze Light options whatever the way I try (plasma-apply-colorscheme, etc).

doktor5000, yours is a fresh install of Mageia 9? Are you using Cauldron?

adhefe wrote:doktor5000, yours is a fresh install of Mageia 9? Are you using Cauldron?

Fresh install of mga9. Also the colors of the color scheme are stored in ~/.config/Trolltech.conf as those are global Qt settings basically. (for GTK apps this is written to ~/.config/gtkrc by Plasma)
The rest should be in ~/.config/kdedefaults/kdeglobals and also ~/.config/kdedefaults/kwinrc

I have the same color settings problem in three Mageia 9 that resulted from updates of Mageia 8 installations using mgaonline. It seems that no doubt remains that an incomplete update of KDE was done. Hope no other related problem will show up later. By now, I inserted plama-apply-colorscheme command at user's .bash_profile as a workaround.

adhefe wrote:It seems that no doubt remains that an incomplete update of KDE was done.

Well, you can easily check if the update is incomplete and also fix that - so why use some workaround instead when you can finish the upgrade (if it was incomplete).
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_9_Rel ... ne-Upgrade

Unfortunately, not that easy to me to check where is, if there is, an installation error. I've followed the link and could not find any clue on where to begin. No upgrade_log.txt seems to exist.

Thanks any way.

For synchronising package versions also see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_9_Err ... to_release

morgano wrote:For synchronising package versions also see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_9_Err ... to_release

This link seems to help people that udated to Mageia 9 but had Cauldron repos before, isn't it? I had Mageia 8 and its repos. As doktor5000 said mga9 > mga8 and I would not have this syncronizing problems, right?

Thanks for the tip any way.

If you have a full set of repos configured, simply run either

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urpmi --auto-update

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dnf upgrade --refresh

depending what package manager you use - if no packages are about to be updated, the upgrade is complete.

Why do you guess that you got an incomplete update? That way you can check and fix whether all of the Plasma packages have been updated instead of guessing ...

Hi doktor5000,

Mageia applet, for updates, works pretty well. So I believe it is not a matter of an incomplete update as I, erroneously, said. In fact, I meant the updates of KDE files shoud have turned mine like a fresh install but it is not. My english is poor and I use the word "incomplete" when I'd better say different.

Thanks for the responses

adhefe wrote:In fact, I meant the updates of KDE files shoud have turned mine like a fresh install but it is not.

The updates for the KDE packages updates the files contained in those packages, which is then the same as a fresh install.
It does not touch anything in your /home where the settings are stored, as those are basically not accessible to packages by policy.

You mean, a fresh install of Mageia 9 would also show the same problem since all personal settings are at /home?
Configuration used to work well at Mageia 8.