From: nntp.mbourne@spamgourmet.com   
      
   Monsieur wrote:   
   > Monsieur wrote:   
   >   
   >> No idea why they are empty. I will try to install Mint in a virtual   
   >> machine and see if I can copy these files.   
   >   
   > So I noticed that there are actually two locations for the config files:   
   >   
   > - home/.config/cinnamon/   
   > - home/.cinnamon/configs   
   >   
   > A bit confusing I think. Anyway, I noticed that the .json files were   
   > also in the first location and those were not empty. So I just copied   
   > those to the second location and overwrote the empty ones. Now the   
   > Keyboard menu opens without a problem.   
      
   It looks like `~/.cinnamon/configs` is an "old" path for Cinnamon's   
   settings files, with `~/.config/cinnamon/` being the "new" path (the   
   `OLD_SETTINGS_DIR` and `SETTINGS_DIR` names in my script are copied   
   straight from `cinnamon-settings` itself).  You could probably just   
   delete the now-duplicates from under `~/.cinnamon/configs` (or move to   
   somewhere else and see how things go for a while before deleting, in   
   case I'm wrong about that).  I don't even have a `~/.cinnamon/`   
   directory on my Mint 22.1 Cinnamon system, having been set up as a fresh   
   installation and only selectively copied config files that I knew I   
   wanted to keep from the previous version.   
      
   The code in `cinnamon-settings` will load all files under both of those   
   directories, with settings loaded from `~/.config/cinnamon/` taking   
   precedence if both define the same settings, so there doesn't seem to be   
   any advantage in having the same in both places.  But, because it tries   
   to load all the files, it'll fail if any are corrupt.   
      
   > Strange that this happened on a completely fresh install on a completely   
   > new machine.   
      
    From other posts it sounds like you copied your home directory across   
   from an old machine, but it's still strange.  All I can think is that   
   either something went wrong when copying, or perhaps the files were   
   already corrupt on the old machine but the version of   
   `cinnamon-settings` there either didn't look in that directory or was   
   more tolerant of the errors.   
      
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   Mark.   
      
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