Show preferences dialog on initial start-up

This is a good suggestion, however, the preferences dialog opens EVERY TIME the program opens. This is annoying because I always have to look at it when I open linuxdcpp instead of just the initial time. Is there a simple way to fix this?

I'm unable to reproduce. Mine only opens the first time I start. First check to see if ~/.dc++/LinuxDC++.xml has write permissions. You may also try to use a fresh profile and see if it still occurs (mv ~/.dc++ ~/.dc++_backup). Also try seeing what the value of show-preferences-on-startup value is the first time and subsequent times (grep show-preferences-on-startup ~/.dc++/LinuxDC++.xml).

There is no LinuxDC++.xml file in that directory though there is a DCPlusPlus.xml if that is what you mean.
There is also a profile.lck but it is empty. Perhaps this is the issue? Does that need to contain the profile information? All other settings save.

No, profile.lck has nothing to do with it. There needs to be a LinuxDC++.xml. You did not try my other suggestions... Also please post the LinuxDC++ version from the about menu.

For the other suggestions, creating a new /.dc++ directory does not fix the issue and the grep command does not post anything as there is no LinuxDC++.xml file.

I'm using the bzr branch version 1.0.3-bzr with core version 0.75. I pulled it from the ppa signed here <https://launchpad.net/~linuxdcpp-team/+archive/ppa>

Ok, after restoring ./dc++_backup to ./dc++ and launching the program again there is now created a LinuxDC++.xml file in ~/.dc++

I do not know why this file was just created. Also a file ADLSearch.xml was created that was not previously there.

Can you check for /tmp/.dc++/ ? Maybe for some reason your HOME environment variable isn't set. When you deleted ~/.dc++ did another ~/.dc++ get created?

there is no such directory on my system as /tmp/.dc++/ though I did just restart. When I moved ~/.dc++/ to ~/.dc++_backup and started LinuxDCPP there was another, new ~/.dc++ created. I already deleted this file though and moved back the original.

I did try installation on another computer (from the same PPA) with an Ubuntu 10.04 x86 installation and the same problem occured. I do not have access to that computer any longer unfortunately.

Sounds like some issue with your system. Check your permissions and umask for home and .dc++ directories if it continues.