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#1 Post by kafka »

I am using Precise Puppy 5.4.3 on an old machine: Duron 950, 256 Mb RAM. Everything works nice for me, but one day after booting there was no default panel available. But the most serious problem is I cannot launch menu clicking with right mouse button. Before it happened I installed frost pet, which works properly by the way.
I am a newbie in Puppy however have some experience in Debian based distros. But I do not want to mess too much in my new system.
Waiting for some advice.
Last edited by kafka on Mon 04 Mar 2013, 10:37, edited 1 time in total.

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Karl Godt
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#2 Post by Karl Godt »

guessing you have jwm as desktop-window-manager :

check the hidden file /root/.jwmrc-tray for content

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#3 Post by kafka »

Sending to you the content of my .jwmrc-tray file:

<JWM>
<Tray autohide="false" insert="right" x="0" y="-1" border="1" height="28" >

<!-- Additional TrayButton attribute: label -->
<TrayButton label="Menu" icon="mini-dog.xpm">root:3</TrayButton>

<!-- <TrayButton popup="Run commandline" icon="gexec.xpm">exec:gexec</TrayButton> -->
<!-- <TrayButton popup="Free space in drives" icon="mini-hdisk.xpm">exec:partview</TrayButton> -->
<TrayButton popup="Show Desktop" icon="mini-desktop.xpm">showdesktop</TrayButton>

<!-- Additional Pager attributes; width, height -->
<Pager/>

<!-- Additional TaskList attribute: maxwidth -->
<TaskList/>

<Dock/>

<!-- Additional Swallow attribute: height -->

<!-- <Swallow name="blinky">
blinkydelayed -bg "#DCDAD5"
</Swallow> -->

<!-- <Swallow name="xtmix-launcher">
xtmix -launch
</Swallow> -->

<!-- <Swallow name="asapm">
asapmshell -u 4
</Swallow> -->

<!-- <Swallow name="freememapplet" width="34">
freememappletshell
</Swallow> -->

<Swallow name="xload" width="32">
xload -nolabel -bg "#888888" -fg red -hl white
</Swallow>

<Clock format="%H:%M">minixcal</Clock>
</Tray>
</JWM>

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#4 Post by Monsie »

kafka,

Your .jwmrc-tray file looks okay to me.

At the console, try the following command:

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fixmenus
and then this command:

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jwm -restart
hope this helps,

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#5 Post by kafka »

Monsie, your advice worked like a charm, thanks a lot for quick response.

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