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JusGellin

fredx181
I was going to get some screenshots to show you.
By doing this I figured out what to do.

When I made the last desktop launcher, I left off the .desktop extension.
I never realized the importance for that.
Once I added the extension, it immediately changed and now the properties
show ...

JusGellin

When I made an additional desktop entry for another script, I must have made it wrong
because instead of it being a Desktop entry that has the settings,
it came up as a Plain text file with the settings.

How can I change this Plain text file to be a Desktop entry file?
Or do I need to rebuild it ...

JusGellin

I did both ways because the first way was updating the terminal immediately on reboot, but the desktop time would take somewhat, like 30 seconds before it would update.
But even doing the second way still has an approx 30 second delay after reboot.

When I ran the Psync, it now has the America ...

JusGellin

When I run the date command, the time listed is UTC instead of my time zone.
# date
Tue Apr 22 01:12:45 UTC 2025
But the time shown at right bottom tray of the desktop is the correct time for my zone which is MDT
2025-04 21
19:12

How can I make the terminal display the correct time zone so it ...

JusGellin

@rockedge
I made a new Desktop launcher for restore-sys2 that gave the error message until I added the /root/Startup/05-launcher_monitor and rebooted.
Thanks

Now I know better how to add a desktop launcher - thanks @fredx181

JusGellin

@fredx181
I had already rebooted, but that didn't help.
Making it executable and again rebooting made it work properly.

Thanks for your help

JusGellin

fredx181
This worked. Thanks

The link didn't work for the icon, so I used one on a BookwormPup64 install.

edit: probably first time running you'll get a prompt, then choose "Mark executable".

It didn't ask to do this.

But when it comes up it says "Untrusted application launcher" - but it ...

JusGellin

How could I add a save2flash launcher with icon like BookwormPup64 has for the desktop?

Thanks

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JusGellin

@rockedge
Thanks for directing me to that.
That has good information and I noticed there are other html's with useful information too.

JusGellin

rockedge
Thanks for your valued perspective on this matter.

This topic really depressed me for some reason. I thought I was making progress and being careful with how I was using this.
I have really enjoyed this site for all the advancement it has made for making puppy linux efficient and fun to ...

JusGellin

This topic has really upped my concerns. I hope this is still the best place to help me understand and find a solution.
I have some more questions about this:

Is this topic, "The end is nigh", meaning this is for an older Puppy that will soon not be supported?
Would the responses also apply to ...

JusGellin

But isn't that true that you can install apps at other places as well?
Like for instance /mnt/home. There it would do the same thing.
Is that just a vulnerability that puppy has?

Am I understanding this correctly?

I'm also installing puppies as a virtual machines using qemu virt-manager.
Once the ...

JusGellin

I'm confused looking at this.
I thought that using PUPMODE 13 and not saving was a protection.
Then always starting with this when doing any setting changes, but not after this has been up and then only saving for this was the way the protection would continue.

It looks like there is quite a lot of ...

JusGellin

Looking further:
I'm learning to use the command diff to compare the folder differences when using either save from desktop or save when rebooting.
What I do is make a save, and if it shows a change, I copy the savefolder to a folder.
Then I can compare between folders.

The diff command then can ...

JusGellin

I did some more testing to try to help my understanding of this on a fresh install of BookwormPup64_10.0.9.
When I use the desktop save without reboots, and no changes for the session, it seems to find hardly a few bytes change for the size of dpupbw64save.
But when a reboot is made with no changes ...

JusGellin

Shouldn't using the desktop save which doesn't change the save folder size be the same way that a reboot with save session works?

It's just that it seems both should work the same way because they both are using the same script for saving the save folder.
If I don't change anything for a session ...

JusGellin

Jasper wrote: Tue Apr 01, 2025 2:40 pm
@JusGellin

I've had the save folder increase in size sometimes over 10K in size.

Can you clarify this?

Did you mean kB?

Yes

JusGellin

Using a new install of BookwormPup64_10.0.10, I was educating myself on how saves of the save folder works.
The following have no changes occurring for any session for this testing.

1. I have found that the save folder stays very stable to the byte if the desktop Save icon is not clicked.
So ...

JusGellin

@MochiMoppel
I tried editing the first one again - and it worked.

I just didn't do it corectly the first time.

Thanks again.

JusGellin

It changes the sub topic but not the main one like I wanted - see above. I only see that you didn't edit your first post, otherwise it would now contain a " Last edited by JusGellin on .. ." notice. Forgot to "Submit"?

That's what I did. I edited the first post (I didn't select "Post Reply ...

JusGellin

How can I get the variable name of that install folder (called dpupbw6410.0.9 here) so it can be more generic for the different versions made?

I tried to change the subject to be more correct, but I see I can't.
Why not? Change the subject of your first post (using the "Edit post" button ...

JusGellin

@MochiMoppel
$PSUBDIR is exactly what I need.

Thanks

JusGellin

I tried to change the subject to be more correct, but I see I can't.
It should be for the install folder instead.

JusGellin

I'm keeping track of my BookwormPup64 save folder such that any time I save, it records the date, time and folder size (in bytes).

I'm doing this at the end of /usr/bin/snapmergepuppy.overly script.
Before the exit, I use a command that logs as in the following at the end of that file ...

JusGellin

JusGellin , wizard , Trapster and other forum users who might find auto-mounting your LAN server's resource at boot-time, a productivity gain.

A forum thread for automounting.

Hope this is helpful

Thanks, that really is an excellent document for setting up the samba client.

I've set the ...

JusGellin

Also, I seem to remember MochiMoppel shows a fstab entry, but I cannot find it, that will, at boot time, allow a linux PC (aka laptop/desktop/etc) to auto-connect IFF the MS/MAC/SAMBA server is active on the LAN when the Laptop is booted.

But, I think I may have an example on one of my PCs if ...

JusGellin

Trapster wizard
Thanks

Using sshfs or samba are incredibly useful and easy - once I do it several times.
I just have to make good notes for doing this. It takes me a lot of time when first figuring out how to do this.
Plus, I don't need to automatically do this on startup since I can select a ...

JusGellin

Trapster
I liked your example for how you do this.
For me, I wouldn't need to have this connected to the remote server unless I needed it also
So I wouldn't have a need to make it start up automatically using fstab.
Also having a menu like this is just what I need - I just select the one I want ...

JusGellin

Instead of using fstab, is there a way to either do the mount later in a startup service or to run mount -a later in a startup service?

Thanks

JusGellin

Trapster
Also try:
//192.168.70.72/samba_server /mnt/nvme0n1p2/index/samba cifs credentials=/home.smbcredentials x-systemd.requires=network-online.target 0 0
I used this with the hidden file .smbcredentials :
//192.168.70.72/samba_server /mnt/nvme0n1p2/index/samba cifs credentials=/home ...

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