Xfce session not saving

xfce session isn't saving at the logout... even though i've checked the save at logout option. i abs-ed xfce4-session to make sure that --disable-legacy-sm wasn't used during the compile and it wasn't. i don't quite understand what the problem is. i edit the panels, wallpaper, etc. and it call comes back to the default settings when i restart xfce.

check permission of ~/.cache and ~/.config files ... if they are owned by root, change that to your user to read/write
regards, Tim

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