make display settings and JWNdesk settings persist after reboot

[LANdpLAN]

After getting the external monitor to display on the left with 'Display settings' I used the save button
and the menu bar to the right with JWNdesk, there was no save button
they go back after reboot. How can I make it persist after reboot?

[williwaw]

if your configuration in the top shot was saved, it was saved to sdc1
sdc1 is not present in the bottom shot

[LANdpLAN]

sdc1 is an external hard drive. How do i make it save to the puppy usb on sdb?

[williwaw]

you can boot into ram and when you shutdown you will be presented with dialogs to create saves. do not have your external drive plugged in if you want to not have it offered as a choice. only create saves where you wish to have them found at boot time. if your external drive is disconnected and you are not offered a choice to create a save on the USB, post the contents of grub.cfg

[esos]

There is a problem with bwpup, it will not save the external monitor setting.

[mikewalsh]

There is a problem with bwpup, it will not save the external monitor setting.

@esos :-

I suspect you'll find this has been a problem with Puppy for quite a while. We've had sporadic reports of this over the last few years, long before BWPup came along.

More to the point, I believe you'll find that the settings ARE created & saved, but for whatever reason, at next boot they aren't acted upon. Xorg doesn't, apparently, "see" them..?

That's the impression I've got, anyway.

Mike.

[LANdpLAN]

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Do the developers read these forums or should I file a big somewhere?
For now upon every restart I have a couple steps needed to set it up.
Open JWMdesk and click "apply". As you said the changes are saved in JWMdesk.
Open Desktop>Display settings>Advanced>Position: 'On Left'>Apply>'OK'

[geo_c]

There is a problem with bwpup, it will not save the external monitor setting.

@esos :-

I suspect you'll find this has been a problem with Puppy for quite a while. We've had sporadic reports of this over the last few years, long before BWPup came along.

More to the point, I believe you'll find that the settings ARE created & saved, but for whatever reason, at next boot they aren't acted upon. Xorg doesn't, apparently, "see" them..?

That's the impression I've got, anyway.

Mike.

@mikewalsh do you think it's something simple as timing issue when the config loads? I know on other OS's I use sometimes I have to add scripts in ~/Startup to delay the loading of certain items.

[rockedge]

do you think it's something simple as timing issue when the config loads? I know on other OS's I use sometimes I have to add scripts in ~/Startup to delay the loading of certain items.

I number the scripts in ~/Startup like 01-start1, 02-start2 and so on and so forth...... and also if needed add a sleep statement to a script. Usually controlling the execution order will suffice.