Missing personal storage space icon in the tray [SOLVED]

[Semme]

Long time, Kiddies.

Yep, I've lost this and most of my Pup-geek skills over the years and need to tap the mind of someone "still in the know."

I vaguely remember the edit (somewhere in ~) but could use a refresher.

TIA

[bigpup]

What specific Puppy version?

Are you talking about some program named disk space, that has an entry in the main menu, and there is no icon for the entry?

Are you talking about the drive icons on the desktop?

If yes.

Are no drive icons there or when you attach a drive no drive icon pops up?

[Semme]

Hey Bigpup, Happy Easter!

How've you been? Busy? Of course.

It's Fossa 9.5 and I'm referring to the right side of my JWM tray. It's the icon that shows the free space in my personal storage file.

[bigpup]

First try doing a reboot.

If no help.

menu->Desktop->JWMDesk Manager->Profiles tab

Under Backup Profiles->jwmrc-tray

Click on restore

When asked select yes.

May need to reboot.

If no help.

Anything you specifically did just before this was an issue?

[Semme]

Good call I was unaware of. Yet, no dice.

As far as what I may have done before I noticed? Hard to say. Probably one too many changes.

Still, with Partview it's not an issue. Merely an inconvenience.

I do however sense there is a logical corrective measure.

[Wiz57]

Not 100 percent sure, as usually I'm in LXDE...but seem to remember there is a button to set JWM preferences inside PupControl. Go to Menu>Setup>PupControl, click on that. Then look down the left hand side, look for something like Desktop or maybe in Settings, click on that and see if there is a Window Manager Settings. I think that is the one where you can add icons to the tray, choose which to show/hide, hide the tray if desired, etc.

[bigpup]

In your tray image there is a blank space between the firewall icon and the network connection icon.

That is where the icon should be in the tray.

Hover the mouse pointer over that blank space and see if any information pops up about personal storage.

If it does, the program is loading in the tray, but not it's icon.

So does the info pop up?

[Semme]

Bizarre!

Today the icon's back and blinking with only 6mb's available.

Though to answer your question, no -- there was no info pop-up hoovering over the open space.

I sense the recent addition of Vivaldi's profile data is the culprit.

I'll symlink the profile directories out and see if the increased space doesn't clear things up.

[mikewalsh]

Hey, @Semme .

Nice to see ya back (however briefly). Tell me; what d'ya get if you run

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freememapplet_tray

....in the terminal? You should get another instance of it show up in the tray, all things being equal...

(It'll vamoose when you close the console, of course).

Icons all present & correct in /usr/share/pixmaps/puppy, I assume?

I'll symlink the profile directories out and see if the increased space doesn't clear things up.

Don't forget, you'll need at least a restart of "X" to get the thing reading correctly again. I don't think a mere restart of JWM will cut the mustard, though I could well be wrong here. Freememapplet is not summat that's ever given me trouble over the years, so I'm not really speaking from experience with this one.

Just throwing out ideas as they occur to me.

Mike.

[Semme]

Wiz57, close but Fossa I believe is less straightforward than what you described.

And Mike, thank you. Good to see your ongoing contributions.

Your terminal run did prompt another instance, but like I said, it magically reappeared after a short hiatus.

As far as removing Vivaldi's "spot" cache and config mb's, then restarting either JMW or X, no acknowledgement in the tray. What I did suspect was just doing it and assume Pup would reboot with those directories removed. That was indeed the case when free space rose to 300+ mb's.

I also suspect the minimal free space I had after adding the Vivaldi sfs was the reason my tray icon wigged out.

In the end I sym-linked the cache and config directories back in from another partition before reloading my Vivaldi sfs.

All good fellow puppians and thank you for your support.