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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to Mark Bourne   
   Re: Keyboard not working   
   10 Sep 25 01:03:58   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 9 Sep 2025 21:41:29 +0100, Mark Bourne wrote:   
      
   > Monsieur wrote:   
   >>   
   >> 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 ...   
      
   You would think so, yet he clearly says he copied the files in the other   
   direction.   
      
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