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As u can see, I am trying to use a clean desktop but I found a problem.

There's no way to delete these 7 icons (I deleted them, but they go back once and again).

viewtopic.php?t=12435#p129725

I deleted them , I look for them at startup ... but I don't know how to put them out.

I wanna place the drive icons centered, where is the option to modify the coordenades (x,y) ?/ in puppy you can do it with right click option.

Can any of u help me?


Thanks.

Hello pp4mnklinux !
Look at : /usr/share/local/apps the place they are stored to delete them there.I"m not sure.
Amol

You can do it using menu--desktop--Legacy theme tools---Icon layout or
edit /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/ and delete the lines from PuppyPin
and look in /var/local/sss/root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin

Amol wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2024 1:03 pm

Hello pp4mnklinux !
Look at : /usr/share/local/apps the place they are stored to delete them there.I"m not sure.
Amol

@Amol The suggested folder, doesn't exist in my EasyOS

nilsonmorales wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2024 1:13 pm

You can do it using menu--desktop--Legacy theme tools---Icon layout or
edit /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/ and delete the lines from PuppyPin
and look in /var/local/sss/root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin

@nilsonmorales Similar happens with your solution:

root/Choices/ROX-Filter/PuppyPin exists, I changed the permisions, but when I modify this lines, delete the icons and restart X this file goes to its original contents (once and again)

Th second file.- var/local/sss/root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin doesn't exist.

It is possible (OC) I made some errors, so please, explain me step by step for EasyOs (not puppy, plz)

THANKS

pp4mnklinux wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2024 4:21 pm

root/Choices/ROX-Filter/PuppyPin exists, I changed the permisions, but when I modify this lines, delete the icons and restart X this file goes to its original contents (once and again)

It could be related to viewtopic.php?p=116367#p116367 :

If the word defaultbrowser (previously www) is not present on the file PuppyPin, this file is replaced by a copy of PuppYPinBACKUP at the start of X

So try by modifying PuppyPin and PuppyPinBACKUP at the same time. (Or by adding the word "defaultbrower" on the PuppyPin file(EDIT this method do not resist to reboot))

Caramel wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2024 5:21 pm

pp4mnklinux wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2024 4:21 pm

root/Choices/ROX-Filter/PuppyPin exists, I changed the permisions, but when I modify this lines, delete the icons and restart X this file goes to its original contents (once and again)

It could be related to viewtopic.php?p=116367#p116367 :

If the word defaultbrowser (previously www) is not present on the file PuppyPin, this file is replaced by a copy of PuppYPinBACKUP at the start of X

So try by modifying PuppyPin and PuppyPinBACKUP at the same time. (Or by adding the word "defaultbrower" on the PuppyPin file)

It partially works.- I deleted the default browser but I can't do the same with these three icons ( I tryed the same way but it doesn't work).

Thanks...


I try to do it with drives to center them.


@Caramel AMAZING (but.... )

pp4mnklinux wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2024 5:45 pm

It partially works.- I deleted the default browser but I can't do the same with these three icons ( I tryed the same way but it doesn't work).

The cause :
Lines 128 to 130 of /root/.xinitrc :

#180409 easyos, check containerized-apps still on desktop...
#note, created in /usr/local/easy_containers/easy-containers, but session-wipe may remove desktop icons.
[ -x /usr/local/easy_containers/ec-fix-desktop ] && /usr/local/easy_containers/ec-fix-desktop

The icons of containerized-apps are automatically recreated by ec-fix-desktop

A solution :
Prevent the execution of ec-fix-desktop, for example by removing the execution right:
in a terminal, enter

chmod -x /usr/local/easy_containers/ec-fix-desktop 

it may be necessary to redo it after an upgrade of EasyOS version

(EDITED for clarity)

Thanks everybody for your help, but I think the beneficts are not big enought.

I will forget this and I'll go back to traditional desktop (a little bit modified, but without blocked icons modifications, because your suggestions made a lot of errors, so in the end I restored system)

I have tried the suggested methods, but unfortunately, the result was not as expected. My system froze, and I had to restore it from a snapshot. I've decided to only modify the parts that were not causing issues and I decided to use this composition (vid image), sorry . Thank you for the help, but...!

pp4mnklinux wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2024 6:50 pm

your suggestions made a lot of errors, so in the end I restored system)

I have tried the suggested methods, but unfortunately, the result was not as expected. My system froze, and I had to restore it from a snapshot.

I don't understand. The only risk is a corrupted PuppyPin in case of bad modifications.

PS : If the system freezes but not the keyboard you can try Ctrl+Alt+F2 to access the command line

PS 2 : I had deleted the icon of the containerized www and booted twice since without problem.

I have tried the suggested methods, but unfortunately, the result was not as expected. My system froze, and I had to restore it from a snapshot. I've decided to only modify the parts that were not causing issues and I decided to use this composition (vid image), sorry . Thank you for the help, but...!

Just switch to JWM desktop...

Thanks. ,

JWM desktop (modded)

(It could be marvellous if you help me to show in the task bar all the opened programs in every desktop, that is:

Imagine I have 6 desktops

Desktop 1.- Firefox Running
Desktop 2.- Libre Office
Desktop 3.- Gimp

...

Is it possible to show in the task bar all running programms instead of only the running programs on this desktop??)

I tryed to edit the jwmrc-tray2 line <TaskList maxwidth="250" labeled="true" /> to make it show all desktops but I made some error

With f96ce_xfce_fusilli it was really simple, you only need to mark the option show all desktops and you have access to all of them.

Have a nice day u all, thanks.