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tytower · Posted: Sat 01 Oct 2011, 06:16 Post subject: Lose Glipper icon in taskbar

With 5.28

After D/L of Firefox 5 I loose the Glipper icon in the tray .On boot it shows up for a second then the tray does a refresh and the icon is gone .

I don't seem to be able to get it back?

666philb · Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 1227 Location: wales

hi tytower

see if this works....
navigate to /usr/local/bin/ and then drag and drop 'glipper' to /root/startup/ and choose 'link relative' from the options that pop up.

Luluc · Joined: 16 Mar 2011 Posts: 200

That has been happening to me for a long time, I just don't know when/why it started and if it has anything to do with Firefox.

tytower · Posted: Sun 02 Oct 2011, 13:54 Post subject:

I did as 666philb suggested saved and rebooted but to no avail

magerlab · Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 730

I notice this happens every time fbpanel refreshes
so i use parcelite instead

tytower · Posted: Sun 02 Oct 2011, 14:50 Post subject:

I just kept fiddling.
By using PupControl from the menu/utility i went to Manager and clicked on and off the Clipboard icon and up it came !

Whether it stays or not is another thing but I did a pupsave and a backup copy at that point so heres hoping

disciple · Posted: Sun 02 Oct 2011, 15:50 Post subject:

I'm curious:
1. Do you have glipper-lite, or the old version of glipper? (I can't see any version in the 5.x repositories).
2. How is glipper being started? Is it by code like this in ~/.xinitrc?

tytower · Posted: Sun 02 Oct 2011, 21:09 Post subject:

glipper 0.89

I am not familiar enough with Puppy to find the xinitrc file. Where exactly would it be ? I do not see it in my ~/ directory?

The above fix to bring back the taskbar icon only lasts the session and must be done each boot.

I did as suggested above so now I suppose its started by the above procedure . Usually when you leave them on in the task bar they start auto at boot and this one does so as I can see the icon on first boot but then it disappears on what seems to be a refresh of the taskbar

And YES it does it every time I do a fbpanel refresh ! It disappears !

Thanks to the posters , at least now I can get it when I need it

disciple · Posted: Mon 03 Oct 2011, 01:56 Post subject:

disciple · Posted: Mon 03 Oct 2011, 07:55 Post subject:

OK, I haven't tried fbpanel, but I've realised if I exit then restart jwm (without exiting X) that also kills glipper(-lite).

So:
1) glipper should be improved so that it survives if the tray disappears. Some more work on glipper-lite is maybe no. 3 on my software todo list, so I'll see if I can sort that out.

2) Presumably fbpanel does not really support refreshing (e.g. to update the menu). Can anyone confirm which of these two options is the case?:
a) fbpanel has a restart command similar to jwm, or
b) fbpanel is being restarted by a script someone has put in Puppy (perhaps as a side effect of a script designed to kill it and then restart it to update the menu). I don't see why you would want to refresh the panel immediately after opening it, so maybe try to stop that.

boolean · Joined: 31 Oct 2009 Posts: 21

That how i fixed this problem for Glipper and Truecrypt:
i changed this in /usr/sbin/pfbpanel: what's between ########

disciple · Posted: Mon 03 Oct 2011, 08:31 Post subject:

tytower · Posted: Mon 03 Oct 2011, 14:31 Post subject:

In the interim I can report boolean's change worked for me atm.
file was in /usr/sbin in Puppy 5.28
Thanks

disciple · Posted: Fri 07 Oct 2011, 10:06 Post subject:

Please see http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=571240#571240 for a fixed glipper.

tytower · Posted: Sat 15 Oct 2011, 00:15 Post subject: