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Old 24th August 2017
Beastie Beastie is offline
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Configuration files like this one are constantly being used by GTK-based applications and these applications save them every time, so any manual change you make may be overridden.

That's why I suggested closing all GTK applications and using something like vi to do the edit.

But i3 is not GTK-based so I guess you had another application using the file. Logging out must have taken care of closing any remaining handle.
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