The Window Manager is unable to make a permanent change to the Theme setting
Submitted by Jeffery Small @cjsmall
Assigned to Olivier Fourdan @olivier
Description
After a recent upgrade from Xubuntu 19.04 to 19.10, I attempted to change the Theme from Moheli to Default. I was able to make the change and it was immediately reflected in the displayed windows. However, after logging out and logging in the setting was back to Moheli. I discovered that the theme was stored in the ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfwm4.xml file under the entry:
<property name="theme" type="string" value="Moheli"/>
and it was not updated when changed in the Window Manager. I manually edited this to:
<property name="theme" type="string" value="Default"/>
but the next time I logged in, this was reset to Moheli. I decided that the window manager must be writing out its internal setting upon exit, so I logged out of Xfce4, remotelly logged into a shell and re-edited the file. This worked and now when I reboot/login the Default theme is active and shows up as such in the Window Manager.
I believe I changed the theme to Moheli back in 19.04 and it immediately took. Something seems to have changed with 19.10.
Version: 4.14.0