I'm not really sure why that would fix it (or why there would be a problem in the first place) because the config and all the values are read much earlier when cf = Config(), because read() is part of the init of the config class.

Well, I just tried the original version of waypaper, and the bug is still there, and I tried my version of the package, and it fixes that problem.

One thing I found out from a python REPL section is that it takes two executions of the read() method to get it to read the INI file correctly.

>>> import waypaper.__main__
>>> print(waypaper.__main__.cf.config_file)
/home/jjramsey/.config/waypaper/config.ini
>>> print(waypaper.__main__.cf.fill_option)
fill
>>> waypaper.__main__.cf.read()
>>> print(waypaper.__main__.cf.fill_option)
Fit

The "Fit" option is what's in my config.ini file.

I don't understand it either, and I didn't realize that problem until today. Really bizarre, and it has me stumped.

I figured it out. The problem was that the config.ini file was written incorrectly by the Waypaper GUI. It took the result from the combo box for the fill option, but left it capitalized. When the check_validity() method was invoked when the __init__() method for the Config class was run, it saw the incorrectly written fill option and replaced it with its default. Hence, "Fit" was replaced with "fill".

When I read the config file the second time in the previous version of my pull request, check_validity() wasn't rerun, so the fill option didn't reset. That's why it "worked."

Ah, I see, I don't know how nobody ever noticed that before 😅 Thank you!