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Topic: Can't backup icons, for icon-replacment extension

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RoGuE_StreaK Offline

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Posted: June 18 2005,06:33

I'm trying to package up a replacement icon set, but for some reason I can't get the contents of .xtdesktop to add to a backup. I'm using DSL1.2 live, tried both vanilla and with gnu-utils.
I've tried adding to filetool.lst both the files individually and the directory itself (using the oh-so-useful add2filetool), but the resulting backup is empty. Weird thing is, anything else I add to the filetool.lst DOES show up. I've tried about 10 different combinations of adding files, removing, backing up... all with the result that everything except the contents of .xtdesktop is added to the backup.tar.gz!

Any thoughts?

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hawki

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Posted: June 18 2005,14:08

Hi
With the release of version 1.2 a file named xfiletool.lst was added. This is a file used to exclude some things from being added to the backup. It is great for telling the system to backup all of /home/dsl except those listed in this file. .xtdesktop may be listed there.

good luck

roberts

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Posted: June 18 2005,14:34

hawki is correct. Of course he is, xfiletool.lst is his contribution. But the following is why .xtdesktop and .fluxbox/menu are defaulted in the xfiletool.lst.

DSL is primarily a liveCD or compressed install (frugal) system. As such mydsl extensions are dynamically loaded upon each boot boot. However these extension apps write into the .fluxbox/menu and often place icons into .xtdesktop. Now with the default that all of /home/dsl being backed up this would mean that upon the next boot we would have icons and menu items that "point" to extensions that very well may not be there. Example, while running you decide to look at an extension program, you get a desktop icon and it is listed under mydsl menu section. You decide not to keep this extensions. You reboot. The extension program is gone as it should be, but you would still have the its menu and icon comming in from the backup. To prevent this these two files were defaulted into the xfiletool.lst Now since DSL is incredibly flexible you can decide to disable this by removing these two items from the xfiletool.lst You can make any adjustment you like. I just wanted to explain the reasons behind the decisions for what is in the default configuration.

mikshaw

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Posted: June 18 2005,15:30

An alternative is to make your icon replacement a myDSL package that overwrites whatever is currently in .xtdesktop

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