Fails to start when freshly installed without Netbook skins

[Uwe Bergemann]

Mixx version: 1.11.0, 64bit
OS: MS Windows 7 Professional 64bit
Language: german

After a fresh installation without all skins not matching my screen resolution, the program reports the following error condition when starting:

Skin directory does not exist: C:/Program Files/Mixxx/skins/ShadeDark1024x600-Netbook

A new installation with selection of the same components plus Netbook (1024×600) skins and … voilà ‒ it works like a charm.

[jus (jus)]

I could think of the following:

In a previous install of Mixxx, you selected the ShadeDark1024x600-Netbook skin. Mixxx writes the value to its configuration file mixxx.cfg. When uninstalling, Mixxx does NOT delete the configuration file, among other files (e.g. your Mixxx library database). So if you later decide to install Mixxx again and deselect the Netbook skins, Mixxx fails to read the skin and throws an error, just like you described.

So if you uninstall Mixxx and manually delete the mixxx.cfg from "C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Local Settings\Application Data\Mixxx\", the error should not occur on reinstall.

[RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan)]

I think we should remove the ability to select which skins are installed on
Windows.

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 6:31 AM, jus <email address hidden> wrote:

> I could think of the following:
>
> In a previous install of Mixxx, you selected the
> ShadeDark1024x600-Netbook skin. Mixxx writes the value to its
> configuration file mixxx.cfg. When uninstalling, Mixxx does NOT delete
> the configuration file, among other files (e.g. your Mixxx library
> database). So if you later decide to install Mixxx again and deselect
> the Netbook skins, Mixxx fails to read the skin and throws an error,
> just like you described.
>
> So if you uninstall Mixxx and manually delete the mixxx.cfg from
> "C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Local Settings\Application
> Data\Mixxx\", the error should not occur on reinstall.
>
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[Owen Williams (ywwg)]

agree, rip it out. (this would also be a problem if the user got a different monitor and forgot that other skin resolutions exist)

[jus (jus)]

https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/commit/581ff78c3c440a53a805c94269e9501e1a6cd7b2

[Swiftb0y (swiftb0y)]

Mixxx now uses GitHub for bug tracking. This bug has been migrated to:
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/issues/7181