Linux install loses setup info

[drawson1]

The most recent installs on Linux have been losing my "current" setups - particularly toolbar and font setups, along with most recent dialog box and application window sizes. This has been happening for the last few months ... but it's easy to fix so I haven't tracked it down until now.

I'm running OpenSUSE (Leap 15.6) with an XFCE desktop. I install using a one-liner (which originally came from the calibre website MANY years ago :-):

wget --no-check-certificate -nv -O- https://download.calibre-ebook.com/linux-installer.sh | sudo sh /dev/stdin

When I run this and re-start calibre, a few things are changed:

• The main window size is different (much smaller)
• The main window configuration has changed, including the width of the tag column, font selection, and customized toolbar configurations
• All dialog boxes are now maximized

I've discovered that I can fix this by saving and restoring ~/.config/calibre/gui.json. Oddly enough, my installed plugins are not affected by this issue, even though their configuration is stored in ~/.config/calibre

The fix is easy enough, but I'm wondering if there's something "off" somehow in my install that the setup info gets over-written

Thanks!

Dan

[enuddleyarbl]

I can't imagine this would be the issue, but are you really entering that command without elevation (sudo)? According to the Calibre website:

https://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux

the command for a "no root certificates" install is:

sudo -v && wget --no-check-certificate -nv -O- https://download.calibre-ebook.com/linux-installer.sh | sudo sh /dev/stdin

If your system really has no root certificates installed, I can't imagine the command working at all without the sudo.

[drawson1]

It actually works either way (and has for years), but the result is the same; gui.json gets over-written with the default version, and the setup info is gone ....