[Bug] Terminal settings are not being read from the file they are written

[deeleeramone]

I noticed this because the contents of the old .env file in my OpenBBTerminal folder had been updated to be a blank file. Settings for plotautoscaling , dpi , and monitor are being read from the old location .env file. If there are no entries in this file, it goes to "default".

You can test this by removing entries from the .env in the old location, changing a setting in the Terminal settings ( you will see this be updated in ./openbb_terminal/.env) - like dpi 300 - restarting and then looking at the setting menu. You should see that any changes made will be forgotten.

[colin99d]

I am not able to reproduce this. I changed DPI to the new value and then reloaded, and settings showed a DPI of 300.

[deeleeramone]

This issue has not been resolved. Another example is changing Timezone settings in the installer version.

[colin99d]

I think the issue is that settings are not applied instantly. Once I closed and reopened the terminal I got the desired result. Let me dig into how to fix immediately.