Xfce4 Settings lost on reboot

Settings that I make for the the Panel such as Size/Position and launchers are not saved after a reboot, also settings made for Xterm are not saved.
I'm asuming these settings are simply saved in some file in my home directory?
So I'm not sure what could be going on here?
Last edited by action_owl (2009-09-18 02:26:56)

have you tried saving the session when you shutdown
you can try creating ~/.Xdefaults for xterm, like this for example.....
! xterm ----------------------------------------------------------------------
xterm*geometry: 82x20
xterm*faceName: terminusbold:pixelsize=14
!xterm*font: -*-dina-medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
xterm*dynamicColors: true
xterm*utf8: 2
xterm*eightBitInput: true
xterm*saveLines: 512
xterm*scrollTtyKeypress: true
xterm*scrollTtyOutput: false
xterm*scrollBar: true
xterm*rightScrollBar: true
xterm*loginShell: true
xterm*jumpScroll: true
xterm*multiScroll: true
xterm*toolBar: false
xterm*background: black
xterm*foreground: white

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