On Wednesday, August 17, 2016 at 10:42:29 PM UTC, entr0py wrote: > > On 08/17/2016 03:20 PM, entr0py wrote: > >> Just migrated my Qubes 3.1 system to new hardware and it went surprisingly > >> smoothly :) > >> > >> I noticed however that my KDE Window Rules did not get backed up / > >> restored (not sure which). > >> > >> It's kind of irrelevant at this point since we're moving away from KDE but > >> I'd still like to know why that happened and if there are other config > >> files that I need to copy over manually. > >> > >> Most of the files in ~/.kde/share/config/ have permissions user:user 600 > >> so it shouldn't be a problem to back up. Is a KDE lock on those files > >> preventing them from being overwritten on the restore? Any other files I > >> should bring back manually? (Just noticed some keybindings not working...) > >> > >> Thanks. > > > > If the KDE version stayed the same (4.x) then I'd expect the dom0 > > restore to include window rules and keybindings. > > > > Did you restart the system after the restore? > > > > Chris > > Yes, more details: > > 1. Backed up the entire system (all up-to-date): dom0, all templates, all vms; > 2. Installed fresh Qubes 3.1 with no pre-configuration (seems fedora-23 was > installed anyway) > 3. Did an incremental restore as follows: > a. restored dom0 - noticed that the following did not restore: desktop > background, sound prefs, > application menu settings (application menu entries were correct) > b. reboot > c. restored service templates & service vms > d. updated dom0 - noticed window rules were not restored > e. reboot > f. restored dom0 AGAIN - thinking that dom0 update might have some effect > window rules did not restore BUT desktop background did. > g. restored all other templates & vms > h. noticed that keybindings did not restore > > I think all of these KDE settings are stored in ~/.kde/share/config/. > Specifically, the window rules are located in kwinrulesrc. I guess I could > reconnect backup drive and go find out if files were backed up to begin with. > My hunch is that the problem is on the restore end. How can I tell if files > are locked? And if locked can Qubes restore overwrite them? >
So I took kwinrulesrc from the old system and copied it right into the new system manually with no issues. No idea why restoring dom0 wasn't able to do so. Now I gotta wade through all the other config files... Hopefully, not missing anything else. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/7e47ff2c-3adb-42fd-b41b-8e9c68cbb202%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
