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Strange JWM Behavior, caused by corrupt .jwmrc
Posted: Sat 29 Apr 2006, 15:35
by davec51
This may or may not be a bug, but yesterday I had a strange experience:
All windows, including Abi-Word and Mozilla, were bordered in bright red, and the menus were little rectangles instead of letters.
On the desktop, neither right nor left click produced the main menus. There was no Start button.
After considerable fiddling, I deleted the pup.000 file from my HD and rebooted. I had to reset all my preferences, reinstall the printer, and so forth, but now everything is back to normal.
What happened?
I have a Pentium II machine.
Posted: Sat 29 Apr 2006, 17:28
by lostdog
which version are you using?
Posted: Sat 29 Apr 2006, 17:33
by davec51
which version are you using?
1.0.8. Just started a few days ago.
Posted: Sat 29 Apr 2006, 17:53
by MU
that is a corrupted /root/.jwmrc
Activate the "show hidden" -icon in rox-filer.
Look, if there is a file in /root like .jwmrc-backup.
Replace your .jwmrc with it.
If it does not help, replace it with this one (Puppy 108):
(RIGHT-click -> save as )
http://dotpups.de/stuff/.jwmrc
Make a backup of the corrupted one first, then you can manually copy the "Dotpups"-menu with an editor from the old one into the new one to get back your dotpups-menu.
Mark
Strange Behavior
Posted: Sat 29 Apr 2006, 18:48
by davec51
Thanks, but deleting the pup001 file seems to have done the trick (the next boot created a new pup001). Is the jwmrc part of the pup001?
Posted: Sat 29 Apr 2006, 19:03
by MU
yes, .jwmrc is the configurationfile for the JWM Desktop.
It is created when Puppy saves to pup001 the first time.
The question is, why yours got corrupted.
That might happen when installing a defect Dotpup, that creates a wrong entry in the Dotpups-menu.
In that case it would be sufficient, to remove that entry with a Texteditor.
Mark
Posted: Sun 30 Apr 2006, 15:30
by davec51
MU wrote:yes, .jwmrc is the configurationfile for the JWM Desktop.
It is created when Puppy saves to pup001 the first time.
The question is, why yours got corrupted.
That might happen when installing a defect Dotpup, that creates a wrong entry in the Dotpups-menu.
In that case it would be sufficient, to remove that entry with a Texteditor.
Mark
I think that's exactly what happened. I installed a Dotpup (or Detget, I forget) sticky notes program just before this happened.
I'll be more careful. Thanks again.
Posted: Sun 30 Apr 2006, 15:34
by MU
if you find the download-link again, please post it here, so that we can correct it
Mark