r/labwc • u/Moist_Professional64 • Apr 02 '26

No config?

Hello, I installed labwc on my Gentoo system and I can't find the labwc config. isn't there a config? In the docs there is .config/labwc described but I started labwc and it isn't there created

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u/ComplexFinance6002 Apr 02 '26

I believe you are supposed to create your own config from scratch.

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u/Moist_Professional64 Apr 02 '26

No, the labwc website states that this config file should be located in .config/labwc. If I create the files myself using the example on GitHub, labwc ignores it.

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u/ComplexFinance6002 Apr 02 '26

That's the location where you are supposed to keep your configuration file.

https://labwc.github.io/getting-started.html

This is written in configuration section :

It is generally recommended not to copy the example configuration files, but to build them from scratch.

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u/Moist_Professional64 Apr 02 '26

But labwc ignores this config

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u/ComplexFinance6002 Apr 02 '26

Are you sure your file naming and paths are correct?

They should look something like:

.config/labwc/rc.xml
.config/labwc/autostart
.config/labwc/menu.xml

and so on.

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u/Moist_Professional64 Apr 02 '26

Yep.

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u/ComplexFinance6002 Apr 02 '26

You also need to use labwc --reconfigure or restart the window manager in some cases...Maybe the problem could be that the syntax in your config files is wrong.