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#676 Settings won't save
TVTime does not maintain the settings in any Ubuntu based distro. I've tried Ubuntu, Mint and Kubuntu and the same thing occurs in each of them. I have to rescan the channels and set the picture attributes each time I restart the app. This does not happen in MD2008 or any other distro I've tried. In fact, it didn't happen in Ubuntu distros until an update I received a few weeks ago.
lew@lewmur.com
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What versions of tvtime, ubuntu do you have?
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I have tried it with both 7.04 and 7.10. The tvtime version is 1.0.2-0.2ubuntu1
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There don't seem to be any relevant changes. Is there any error-message when started via xterm? Maybe the ~/.tvtime/tvtime.xml is just broken and the defaults are loaded. In this case or for testing purposes, rename your ~/.tvtime/tvtime.xml and try to reconfigure or fix that file.
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Btw, tvtime could give a message on OSD on parser-errors, patches welcome. :P
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I have been using Mint for months and the problem just started a few weeks ago. The Kubuntu 7.10 is a brand new installation to a formated partition with a new install of tvtime. It has the same problem. I tried a new install of Ubuntu 7.10 when it first came out to yet another partition. It had the same problem. I have a MD2008 installed on another partition that was installed just a couple of weeks ago and long after the problem started with Mint. It doesn't have the problem. There is no way the problem is being caused by a corrupted file.
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I found the answer. It seems Ubuntu distros create the .tvtime directory with root as the owner. Thus it can't be written to when you run the program. I used this command to change the ownership of the directory and all is well.
-$ sudo chown username /home/username/.tvtime