Qtdragon occasionally overwriting preferences

On a few occasions upon restart of linuxcnc and the computer, qtdragon seems to ignore the preferences file and resets to default. Not sure how to recreate the issue consistently but does occur randomly every few restarts. Any ideas?

Do you close the GUI then shut down the PC, or just shut down the PC.

The GUI _should_ catch the SIGTERM and save state, but I always like to give them a bit more time.

Are you using a Mesa board or anything that would cause LinuxCNC to not start if disconnected/not powered?

I’m running my system sort of in kiosk mode, so I only use the system shutdown button in Qtdragon. It’s not that it doesn’t save the changes to prefs, it’s as if upon start it can’t find the preferences file and resorts to default settings.

I am using a Mesa card, I also have openbox start Linuxcnc after a 5 second delay because I was constantly getting an “error finishing read” if I try to start Linuxcnc 2.9(compiled from source, running Debian 11) with Qtdragon as the system is still starting up

Try loading LinuxCNC with the Mesa board off, LinuxCNC will error out, power on the Mesa board, start LinuxCNC.
Are the preferences set to default?
Same thing would happen with QtPlasmaC a while back, has not happened lately so maybe PhillC got something fixed, i have no clue as to what or where.