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Zedward
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Need copy menu shortcuts

Post by Zedward »

I installed a lot of small logic games for students and edit shortcuts for them in menu. How can I copy this shortcuts (or games + shortcuts) to another Puppy to save time?
And another question: is it way to migrate from one Puppy to another (for examle, from Bionical to Jelly or from 32bit to 64bit) with saving my programs and settings?

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Re: Need copy menu shortcuts

Post by williams2 »

I am running BionicPup64. pfix=ram with the aufs layered file system.
So, the puppy sfs files are in /initrd/pup_ro2/ already mounted.

This lists the directories with jwm in the name:

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find /initrd/pup_ro2/ -type d  | grep --color -i jwm

This lists the files with jwmrc in the path/name:

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find /initrd/pup_ro2/ -type f | grep --color -i jwmrc

If you are running JWM window manager it is JWM that is responsible for the menu.
These files are JWM configuration files:

/etc/xdg/templates/_root_.jwmrc
/root/.jwmrc
/root/.jwmrc-tray
/root/.jwm/jwmrc-personal

and other files in /root/.jwm/

This lists all the files with jwm in the filename or path

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find /initrd/pup_ro2/  | grep --color -i jwm

You can see what has changed by finding files in pup_rw instead of ro2, like this:

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find /initrd/pup_rw/  | grep --color -i jwm

JWM configuration files are text and probably would work with other Pups
No guarantees. It might be unstable or not work at all.

is it way to migrate from one Puppy to another (for examle, from Bionical to Jelly

You can try.
Backup the savefile/folder first.
You would probably find that there are Incompatibilities.

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