Tracking settings don't save

[lilHermit]

I installed from source via a cloned repo

./waf configure build --prefix=/usr/local
sudo ./waf install

and whatever I change in Tracking settings they live until I logout. They seem to persist when I kill the two services and reload Hamster.

Any tips to debugging this?

[ederag]

Thanks for the report.
With lubuntu-18.10 and current master (d15e153),
following precisely this procedure
with this additional step to adapt:
sudo mv /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/hamster/ /usr/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/
the settings seem conserved.

Hopefully fixed then, but please ask here if it is not the case on your system.

[ederag]

Settings were not saved probably because gconf schemas were stored in /usr/local/etc,
due to --prefix=/usr/local and waf gnu_dirs defaulting
SYSCONFDIR (host-specific configuration) to PREFIX/etc.
This is one aspect of issue #309.

[ederag]

Another source of non-persistent settings is a non-writable ~/.gconf/.
Normally,

> ls -l ~/.gconf/apps | grep hamster-time-tracker                                                                       
drwx------  2 username users  24 <date time> hamster-time-tracker