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nickelplated Offline

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Posted: Oct. 12 2006,23:06

Man, I seem to have this same problem every time I go to make an extension and can never remember what I do to make it go away. Can somebody help me out here?

I create a new file in /tmp/mydsl.menu/ using the format listed [exec] (display name) {command}

but it doesn't create a new menu item. I put it into a directory structure of my fully functioning new extension and turn it into a .dsl and it'll even load properly on a vanilla system, but still, it doesn't create a new menu item. Anyone else have a similar issue?

mikshaw

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Posted: Oct. 13 2006,13:49

It's probably either incorrect file permission/ownership within the extension, or the mydsl system was broken by installing an extension as root.

Check the ownership of files in the extension with the command

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tar -tzvf filename.dsl > files.txt

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tar -tzvf filename.dsl | less

Most of the files should be owned by root (0/0). Files in /home/dsl, including /home/dsl itself, should be owned by dsl.staff. The file within /tmp/mydsl.menu should be owned by dsl.staff.

Check the ownership of the file(s) in /tmp/mydsl.menu in your filesystem. They should all be owned by dsl. If not, do this as root:

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chown dsl.staff /tmp/mydsl.menu/*

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nickelplated Offline

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Posted: Oct. 14 2006,03:17

Interestingly enough, I've ruled out those as the cause. Permissions are fine, and I'm not root. The program loads though.

I even tried to copy one of the menuitems from another extension in there, or edit a pre-existing menuitem, and no matter what I edit it to say, the menu doesn't change.

I've made an Icon for it though and that's working fine, which I guess is good enough. By the way, is there some kind of an equivalent to kdialog that's included with fluxbox/busybox, so I can make a little popup dialog box when they click the icon or menu item that'll explain how to configure the program?

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Posted: Oct. 14 2006,04:48

I'd suggest for you to edit one of the menu items from a working extension.

I suppose you could use a .lua dialog, or some output it in a terminal program, or dillo/beaver even. To do this, instead of pointing the icon to the program itself, point it to a "wrapper" script. Depending on which way you want to proceed, this script will basically launch your dialog first, before executing the program (I suppose if you use .lua, you can have a nice "OK" button or something...)

i.e. this may help...

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#! /bin/bash
dillo /path/to/my/readme
/path/to/exec

mikshaw

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Posted: Oct. 14 2006,13:28

I forgot another place where file ownership is an issue:
/home/dsl/.fluxbox/mydsl.menu
This is an include file for /home/dsl/.fluxbox/menu, and must also be owned by dsl. This applies to DSL >=2.3

DSL has xmessage, which is fairly flexible in its use (though a bit fat for what it does), and roberts made a couple of tiny lua scripts called popask.lua and popup.lua:

popask.lua

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popask.lua "this is a message"

Choices are yes and no.
'yes' or Enter prints 1, and 'no' or Esc/close prints nil (although the actual exit code of the app itself is 0).

popup.lua

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popup.lua "this is a message"

It has only 'ok', which i think returns 0 regardless of how it's dismissed.

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