Lost the taskbar from BrowserLinux after selecting Autohide

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jschall
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Lost the taskbar from BrowserLinux after selecting Autohide

#1 Post by jschall »

Running a brand-new install of BrowserLinux on my eeePC 701.

I tried to add the virtual desktop displays by usng the JWM Configuration Manager. Nothing changed, even though I clicked the "Restart JWM" button.

I also selected Autohide to "On", and that's when the taskbar disappeared :(
I have no tray icons, only the right-click menu is working.

How can I get my taskbar back?

- Jeff

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#2 Post by aragon »

hi jeff,

1. test config.
-open a terminal

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jwm -p
this will show you, if you got errors in your config-files.

2. editing tray-config
open rox. open /root/.jwmrc-tray as text.
the line to look is

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  <Tray  autohide="true" x="0" y="0" height="40" halign="center">
set autohide to false. save. restart jwm.

3. recover original tray-config
- backup /root/.jwmrc-tray
- copy /initrd/pup_ro2/root/.jwmrc-tray to /root/.jwmrc-tray
- restart jwm
this should give you the original tray back.

hope this helps.

aragon

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jwm -p --> Segmentation Fault

#3 Post by jschall »

Thank you for the helpful reply, aragon.

1. jwm -p gives "Segmentation Fault"
What does that mean? Just a corrupted file, I hope. Everything else is working fine.

2. /root/.jwmrc-tray and /root/.jwmrc-tray.bak are blank - 0 bytes.

3. /initrd.gz exists. I copied it to a new folder, extracted initrd from it, tried to open it as text, but it is just 0s and 1s.

Is there any other way to restore the orginal jwmrc-tray?

- Jeff

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#4 Post by trio »

Look if you have hidden file /root/.jwmrc-tray.bak, if so, you copy it as /root/.jwmrc-tray, then restart X

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#5 Post by jschall »

trio wrote:Look if you have hidden file /root/.jwmrc-tray.bak, if so, you copy it as /root/.jwmrc-tray, then restart X
I appreciate your help, trio. But as I said in my previous post, BOTH /root/.jwmrc-tray and /root/.jwmrc-tray.bak are blank - 0 bytes.

- Jeff

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#6 Post by trio »

use this
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YES!

#7 Post by jschall »

Awesome! That worked beautifully, thanks, trio!

Now, do I dare try to set autohide = true?

- Jeff

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#8 Post by lisek »

hi,
I think you do this better manually like mentioned above:


open /root/.jwmrc-tray as text.

in the line:
<Tray autohide="false" ....blablabla
change to:
<Tray autohide="true" ....blablabla

In my opinion, BrowserLinux is very nice puplet but it doesnt like if you mix in JWM Configuration Manager

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#9 Post by werwinn »

@lisek

It did the trick for me as well. Thank you and a Happy New Year!

werwinn

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#10 Post by agnes »

Apology in advance for diggin' up an old thread.

trio thanks for the pet worked great on my HD install. But may I ask what is inside the pet? I want to know. I can't extract it when renaming it to .tar.gz.

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#11 Post by georgecorkland »

Thanks Trio, worked well for me.

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#12 Post by Italynux »

georgecorkland wrote:Thanks Trio, worked well for me.
Trio, IOU at least 1 beer! Thank You so much and thanks to search key also! 8)

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