Menu Edits are lost (as are Pinned items) #12870
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When you add apps to the cinnamon menu using the menu editor, it creates a file for each app that looks like The apps you've pinned to the panel are stored in grouped-window-list applet's config file. The config file is a The pinned apps are stored at the end of the .json file, something like: |
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Thanks enormously for these insights. It will permit me to experiment and monitor those folders and report back! I see only the new folder for grouped-windows and I do see the pinned-apps at bottom. Enormous help and insight! Permitting me to check if that's written when I pin. |
Distribution
Mint 22.1
Package version
Cinnamon v: 6.4.8
Graphics hardware in use
NVIDIA GP108 [GeForce GT 1030] driver: nvidia v: 570.133.07
Frequency
Always
Bug description
I can add items to my Cinnamon menu. And after a reboot they are gone.
Likewise I can pin items to the taskbar and after a reboot they are gone.
This commenced at a very particular point in time. An upheaval in homedirs,
To clarify, I keep my home dirs on a separate device. In
/etc/fstab:Have done this for years and years and years, it empowers me to blow away the system disk with a reinstall and my personal data is untouched.
Alas, the device the homedirs was one crashed. The gravity of this crash was that it would not mount on boot and so on a reboot I logged in and I had a default setup in a homedir that is on the root drive, So I did forensics on the crashed drive, recovered what I could, which was not 100% but close, and I played that over the top of a backup that was dated, perhaps 6 -12 months (so that whatever files may have been missing I had in an older version) and mounted as /home and rebooted.
All was good again. Almost. Most of my cinnamon configs blown away. I was runnning on Mint-X theme and am now on mint-Y (and getting used to it so haven't bothered any change there, but my spices/applets were some there some gone, I reinstalled them and reconfigured them and all so my sys tray looks like it used to and my taskbar almost like it did.
The main residual symptom is that whenever I reboot I have lost the menu items I added (I right-click the LM start button then click Edit menu and add items. Mostly appimages on a data drive. They are then available and I can right click them on the menu and Pin them to the taskbar and position them and all is pretty good. But then I reboot and it's all gone.
I can repeat this, have done a few times and have given up adding them. It's fair job and they keep diappearing.
The system summary:
My best guess is there's a silent failure in writing something to persistent store. Which is why I think of this as a bug. Because whatever is happening I should have some feedback as to a problem, not silent failure. My best guess is that something somewhere is read-only but heck as part of the restore very clearly I did:
but the homedir is old and I cleaned it some in this process, dropping all caches and tmps and such, but still it's large and so I'd really appreciate some guidance on debugging this, some insight into where the persistent store for these cinnamon settings is that I can check and test.
Steps to reproduce
Hard to say. I reproduce this by rebooting ;-). As in, lost my settings. But the event that triggered it was complex and best described as homedir upsets of unknown nature, but pretty recovered as best possible.
Expected behavior
That when I add menu items and pin them to the task bar they persist across reboots (as they always have).
Additional information
In case it helps a dump of setting (which I'm guessing is teh persistent store, but I'd love to be able to test retention if it is):
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