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   Monsieur to All   
   Re: Keyboard not working   
   10 Sep 25 10:47:08   
   
   From: Monsieur@notreal.invalid   
      
   Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Yes I did. The files in .config/cinnamon were there, but empty. Only   
   when I replaced them with the ones from the old ./cinnamon/configs did   
   everything work again.   
      
   I have no idea what went wrong.   
      
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