On Wednesday 08 January 2020 08:41:42 Felmon Davis wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jan 2020, Gerhard Zintel wrote:
> > Hi Felmon,
> >
> > On 08/01/2020 16:38, Felmon Davis wrote:
> >> I have been told there is no way to save configuration built into xrandr
> >> so (I guessed) the configuration must be stored by the TDERandRtray
> >> application. but I don't see anything in
> >> '/root/.trinity/share/config/tderandrtrayrc' and besides, if there were,
> >> it should affect the second user too.
> >
> > only for clarification. Is root a typo or was your first user really
> > root? If not you should search in the
>
> I see I was partly blind. yes, there is a config file for root but
> also one in the user's directory (each user's directory to be
> precise).
>
> it contains nothing interesting, just an Autostart instruction, Michael,
> just as you say.
>
> sorry for the false start.
>
> > /home/$USER/.trinity/share/config/tderandrtrayrc
> >
> > folder.
> >
> > BTW: Settings in /root/.trinity/... are only valid for root. The global
> > settings should be somewhere else (e.g. /opt/trinity/etc)
>
> I didn't find anything here. I dug as far as
> /opt/trinity/etc/xdg/menus/
>
> but grep came up empty.
>
> Charles, asking which program I'm using: not 'arandr' but a variant,
> "tderandrtray" which comes with the Trinity KDE desktop (old KDE, a
> further development of KDE3). 'locate' reveals nothing interesting.
>
> my guess is something in the display configuration has been altered.
> 'monitor.xml' looks sane (to me); not sure where else to look.
>
> I would be happy just to re-install this or that to fix it but I don't
> have time to do a reinstall of the whole chimichanga, not right now.
>
> I am getting comfortable with the second user; I'm sudoing around but
> may try to migrate and rename.
>
> f.


I don't use this thingie, so I thought better to let others have a turn. 

It occurs to me that 1) you can create a second user; thus, 2) you ought to 
have created a new config file, somewhere, with new settings - probably one 
of those -rc files. 

Maybe it's hiding in another location? in /opt, or your home folder, where 
Trinity also keeps config files? Maybe it's in the second user's home folder? 

If so, then you ought to be able to make a backup copy of the *working* config 
file. Copy it elsewhere (to another folder or wherever, for purposes of 
self-hacking). It goes without saying, that one ought to make backups of 
everything now and then; but especially any such files, which are to be used 
for these experiments in self-abuse. 

Then, maybe you can adapt the settings that actually work, just by changing 
the relevant details. Use it to overwrite the problematic configuration file 
(... assuming, of course, that there is such a config file). 

Bill