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PhilCoo · Joined: 24 Mar 2007 Posts: 39 Location: Staffordshire, UK

I can not remove icons from desktop,right-click and select remove item but they keep coming back when re-booting.I have also tried manually editing choice/rox-filler/puppypin file but the icons still come back. Previous versions 2.15 etc work ok when removing icons.I am using from live-cd not a hard drive install.I can move the icons I want and the new position is remembered on the next boot-up.

Thanks for any assistance

Phil

BarryK · Posted: Thu 17 May 2007, 09:48 Post subject:

I deleted the 'chat' icon, rebooted, and it was still gone (live-cd).

It will only come back when you upgrade a version (or do pfix=clean) or change the SFS layers -- behaviour that is necessary (there was some discussion on this and much deliberation about it by me when the SFS Boot Manager was being designed).

PhilCoo · Joined: 24 Mar 2007 Posts: 39 Location: Staffordshire, UK

BarryK · Posted: Thu 17 May 2007, 19:24 Post subject:

You might be having a problem with ROX-Filer. Look at /root/Choices/ROX-Filer before and after you delete an icon, see if it is getting changed. It might not be. Also look in /root/.config/ROX-Filer/

PhilCoo · Joined: 24 Mar 2007 Posts: 39 Location: Staffordshire, UK

BarryK · Posted: Fri 18 May 2007, 21:48 Post subject:

That is odd. The code that handles this is in /etc/rc.d/rc.update.
You will see near the bottom of the script, a block of code that is supposed to only execute if a version update or a change in the SFS layers -- if you could figure out why it's going wonky in your case, that would be good.

PhilCoo · Joined: 24 Mar 2007 Posts: 39 Location: Staffordshire, UK

Thanks Barry,now solved.

Opened /etc/rc.d/rc.update, under the fix desktop section I found this entry: grep -v -E 'pinboard>|<\?xml' /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin | sort -u >> /tmp/PuppyPinTmp and modified it to read: grep -v -E 'pinboard>|<\?xml version="1.0"?>' /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin | sort -u >> /tmp/PuppyPinTmp (highlighted changed text in red to stand out).
This now works with the icons not wanted removed from the desktop.

Cool

Phil

BarryK · Posted: Sat 19 May 2007, 08:12 Post subject:

PhilCoo, now I'm puzzled!
The original code works fine for me. The code
grep -v -E 'pinboard>|<\?xml'
is supposed to screen out lines that have the string 'pinboard>' or '<\?xml' in them. Could you please open a terminal and test this:

PhilCoo · Joined: 24 Mar 2007 Posts: 39 Location: Staffordshire, UK

Hi Barry, I get the same result as yours when run in a terminal window.

sh-3.00# grep -E 'pinboard>|<\?xml' /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<pinboard>
</pinboard>

Phil

GuestToo · Puppy Master Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 4078

Puppy definitely deletes some of my desktop shortcuts without asking ... i try to keep backups of my PuppyPin file, just in case

of course, you could use your own pin file instead of PuppyPin, then Puppy would leave it alone ... or you could use multiple pin files, and switch between them to switch to different desktops (icons and wallpaper)

looking in the rc.update script, it says:

"delete duplicate execs ... also delete line if exec"

i may have duplicate exec's that run the same program but with different parameters

i definitely have desktop shortcuts that execute programs that are installed on other partitions that are not mounted when Puppy first boots (the partition might be automatically mounted in rc.local, or it might not be mounted unless i mount it myself manually) ... which would explain why my shortcut to Opera installed on /mnt/hda11 keeps disappearing

BarryK · Posted: Sat 19 May 2007, 21:34 Post subject:

PhilCoo, okay, so the change you made doesn't explain why it now works. There is some other factor coming into play here.

GuestToo · Puppy Master Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 4078

the change causes <\?xml lines to not be excluded by grep -v, because the second question mark in <\?xml version="1.0"?> is not escaped

Scoticus · Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 443 Location: Erskine, Scotland

Despite PhilCoo advising that the problem has been solved it has not been solved for me.

Admittedly I am a total newbie to any linux and have extreme difficulty in following / replicating what others are sayiing so a lot of this could be down to me.

Can anyone give me a walk through the solution. I attempted to follow PhilCoo's "Opened /etc/rc.d/rc.update, under the fix desktop section I found this entry" and managed to get as far as /rc.update but could not find the fix desktop section

I am saving to a multisession DVD and am so frustrated in having to rearrange the icons on each reboot. What gets me is that having positioned icons where I want them they are overwritten by those that should have been consigned to oblivion.

Where am I going wrong ?

Ian

PhilCoo · Joined: 24 Mar 2007 Posts: 39 Location: Staffordshire, UK

Hi Ian,
When you have the folder opened /etc/rc.d, you should be able to see the file rc.update,right-click the file and choose to open as text,scroll down to close to end of file and you will see a section "fix desktop" under there is the entry I changed as per previous post.

This fix is still working after several re-boots Cool

Must have been lucky as it seems not official way of working.

Phil

BarryK · Posted: Sun 20 May 2007, 10:48 Post subject:

Let's look at the logic here. Line 280 in /etc/rc.d/rc.update: