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Ghost Dog · Joined: 27 Jan 2012 Posts: 43

Hey I'm making a totally awesome new derivative, but I had questions. One is how do I change things after it loads from a save file so that it doesn't say "Load RAM into pup save" and show that little "save" icon. I just want it to save at logout, and that little icon is cramping my style. Second, what is the name of the icon (picture of dog's head and a text file) for the save file?

Thanks in advance

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RSH · Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 1564 Location: Germany

RSH · Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 1564 Location: Germany

Look also at my previous post.

File /etc/rc.d/rc.shutdown

Ghost Dog · Joined: 27 Jan 2012 Posts: 43

Dude, you are the MAN!

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greengeek · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 1184 Location: New Zealand

I would like to do the opposite - I want to keep the save icon (so I can save if I want to), but I do not want the system to save automatically during use. When I shutdown I want the system to ask me if I want to save or not.

Which is the "eventmanager" you are referring to? Is that in the menu on some puppies?

RSH · Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 1564 Location: Germany

Yes, it is in Menu System - System Schedule or in LazY Puppy: Menu Workstation - System Schedule.

I think you can also edit /etc/eventmanager, but do not know, if restart of X is needed then.

EDIT:

LazY Puppy has a menu entry in Menu Utility to let you save the session manually. I put this in because i have removed the icon.

EDIT2:

greengeek · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 1184 Location: New Zealand

Thanks RSH. Yes, it seems to be there in Menu, System, Puppy event manager. I have not used that before. Makes it easy. Thanks!

Sylvander · Posted: Wed 08 Aug 2012, 02:12 Post subject:

greengeek · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 1184 Location: New Zealand

Thank you Sylvander, your method of forcing the shutdown procedure to ASK if I want to save or not worked very well and now it is behaving exactly how I want it.

I did have a bit of a problem when I tried to search for the line that mentions /usr/sbin/snapmergepuppy /initrd/pup_ro1 /initrd/pup_rw

I could see three instances of that exact line, so it took me a while to realise what Scottman was saying about which one to modify. (and the one I needed to modify was nowhere near line 825...)

Anyway, I thought I would post exactly what I did (so I can find it again next time...)

Here is what I did:

Navigate to /etc and make a backup copy of the /etc/rc.d/rc.shutdown file.

Use Leafpad or Geany to open file /etc/rc.d/rc.shutdown

Search for this code:

greengeek · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 1184 Location: New Zealand

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..just one question...

in the code above, it asks for the dialog to display a --yesno dialog, and the effect of this is that the "yes" appears first, and is the highlighted (default) choice.

I would like the "No" option to be the default choice. Do you think I could modify / reverse the code to use the expression --noyes ? Or would that just be meaningless?

Sylvander · Posted: Fri 10 Aug 2012, 01:56 Post subject:

npierce · Joined: 28 Dec 2009 Posts: 637

dialog --defaultno --yesno . . .

greengeek · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 1184 Location: New Zealand

Thanks nPierce - that worked nicely. Perfect.

Sylvander · Posted: Sat 11 Aug 2012, 06:15 Post subject:

npierce · Joined: 28 Dec 2009 Posts: 637

You're both welcome. Glad to hear it's working for you.