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From: Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk AT familieknaak DOT de>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] layers mess up
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2013 19:35:46 +0200
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Patrick Dupre wrote:

> My layers are totally mess up. How can I have the default ones?
> Originally I even did not have a solder layer!

I assume, you use the GTK version of the pcb GUI (rather than the 
lesstif version).

The layers for a new layout are read from:
   $HOME/.pcb/preferences
If this file does nt exist, or does not contain layer name settings, 
pcb tries to read from:
   $Home/.pcb/settings
If this fails, pcb takes values hard coded in the source.

To get these default layer names, you can remove "layer-name" lines 
from $HOME/.pcb/preferences and $HOME/.pcb/settings . 

Unfortunately, there is no dedicated button in PCB to write the 
current layer stack to $HOME/.pcb/preferences and make it the default 
for future new projects. However, pcb writes the layer names to 
preferences on save of a layout, if there are currently no such lines 
in preferences. Once these lines are includes in .pcb/preferences, 
there is no way to change them from inside the GUI. You can use a text 
editor, though.

Yes, this is a bit confusing. It is not just layer names. Other 
options have similar issues. IMHO, the whole settings/preferences 
business calls for a major clean-up. 

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Kai-Martin Knaak