How to add "Places" to a Puppy tray? [SOLVED]

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Re: How to add "Places" to a Puppy tray? [SOLVED]

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Maybe your menu buttons would work better.

I need a better understanding of how they work or the final goal. There's too much in your file to know what to keep or cut.

I don't really need access to all the partitions in my Drives menu. Pmount can open infrequently used partitions.

Partition icons and their menu is one of JWM's top features, but if I can put just the partitions I need in a menu and keep JWM's right-click menu options, I can hide JWM icons.

This is your file header but not in the script:

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<?xml version="1.0"?>

Maybe all line are not needed.

taersh wrote: Wed Dec 23, 2020 10:41 am

If you set Clean in Desktop Icon Setup, this overrides the Puppy Event Manager and "Drives" will not work:

That's why I said to modify the file for your own needs. If you would use a modified/edited XML file instead of the script from Slacko, you could make entries for all your drives and/or directories.

All entries within the file you got from me (except the sub-directory intern) are directories on my different hard drives.

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Re: How to add "Places" to a Puppy tray? [SOLVED]

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Attached is another one. Reduced to only three items and well commented.
So you should be able to modify for your needs.

It's again a fake .gz file, so remove the .gz from its name.

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Re: How to add "Places" to a Puppy tray? [SOLVED]

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Have a look at this: viewtopic.php?f=95&t=1712

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Before downloading and installing first have a look at post 2 and 3. ;)

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Re: How to add "Places" to a Puppy tray? [SOLVED]

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Having just booted 32 Bionic for the first time I see Places is in JWM tray-1 default just as intended for older puppies in this thread.

Unfortunately it is also plagued by the problem of still requiring Puppy Event Manager desktop icons activated.

I had trouble removing all desktop volumes and keeping Places activated.

That would be the grail though - Places in your JWM tray with the ability to hide/unhide extraneous volumes.

You'd reap the benefit of alt-file manager mounting with a clean desktop.

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