On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 11:21:00 +0100 Bo Berglund via lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 01:35:54 +0100, Mattias Gaertner via lazarus > <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > > >On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 18:58:58 -0500 > >wkitty42--- via lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > > > >> On 12/27/20 5:15 PM, Mattias Gaertner via lazarus wrote: > >> > When the IDE starts, and there is no environmentoptions.xml file > >> > it copies it from the secondary config directory. Maybe you are > >> > seeing that? > > Where is this "secondary config dir" located? See View - IDE Internals - About IDE >[...] > The only thing I think is in common between these instances, which > happened on both Windows and Linux, is that I have used the > Tools/Options to increase the count for recent projects from the > default 5 to 10. I always seem to get a project I want to open > disappear from that list when it only holds 5 recent projects. Same here. I have 30,30. This is unrelated with the desktop issue. The env file is written pretty often. >[...] I believe I did so on both Lazarus installations. > > So what does Lazarus do when one changes this value? > Does it rewrite the environment file based on the default or what? > I made a test to check this (since using the backup file brought back > the 5 files limit): > It seems like it rewrites the environment fiile by changing the 5 to > 10 but also by changing the sequence of some xml nodes... If your backup is months old, then maybe some functions in the IDE changed, changing the order. > But it does not visibly affect the way Lazarus looks when starting up > again. Restart lazarus making sure the config is working. Make a backup of environmentoptions.xml. When the next time it happens, send the backup and the current version. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
