Adding entries to wbar

[Paulo]

Hi all

I tried to add an entry to /home/tc/.wbar, it worked but once I rebooted (did backup), I saw a quick flash
on the screen about some error and the entry was no longer there.
I rebooted again this time without doing a backup, the error is now gone but the entry is still not there.
This what I appended to the end of .wbar:

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i: /path/to/an/icon.png
t: Text_to_display
c: exec /path/to/my/script
Can anyone please advise on how to add stuff to wbar?
Thanks.

[Rich]

Hi Paulo
Read the answer about adding menu items here:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,15107.msg86662.html#msg86662
Adding icons to the wbar is just an extension of this technique.

[Paulo]

Thank you Rich, will give it a bash (sorry, pun intended) 

[Paulo]

@Rich

OK, it went well (the second time round) but now I have an entry which is non functional.
In http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,15107.msg86662.html#msg86662
you mention:

To remove the  oranges~2.desktop  entry, delete the  /usr/local/share/applications/oranges~2.desktop  file, delete
the   Name=  value it created in  /home/tc/.wmx/Applications/oranges, and run  desktop.sh oranges

The problem is, I have no .wmx directory.

[Rich]

Hi Paulo
You do know file and directory names that begin with a  dot  are hidden. If you open a terminal and enter:

ls -a

do you see it then?

[Paulo]

Hi Rich

I know about the dot meaning hidden files.
I tried in the cli (as you suggested)

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ls -a
also

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ls .*  and also via rox running as root.
Nothing, the /home/tc/.wmx folder does not exist.

[gerald_clark]

.wmx/Applications is removed during backup per the /opt/.xfiletool.lst file.

[Rich]

Hi gerald_clark
But he's saying his  /home/tc  directory doesn't have a  .wmx  directory. Is that possible?

[Rich]

Hi Paulo
What does this return:

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for i in desktop icons tcuser; do cat /etc/sysconfig/$i; done

[Paulo]

Hi Rich

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for i in desktop icons tcuser; do cat /etc/sysconfig/$i; done
returns:

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jwm
wbar
tc

[Rich]

Hi Paulo
Maybe the directory has a different name under  jwm, I don't know. When you right click the desktop, do you get a
pop up menu that lists  Applications ? If so, see what this returns:

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find /home/tc -name Applications

[gerald_clark]

.wmx is part of the flwm window manager extension.

[tinypoodle]

If I understand right, .wmx is a subtree containing 1 distinct shell script per each menu item for flwm (and plays no role with jwm).

[Paulo]

Hi Rich

Yes there is a pop-up menu but strangely it does not display the new entry I have made.
It runs perfectly and icon is displayed in wbar, but not listed in the pop-up menu, yet others like FireFox17 are,
which is what I modeled my entry on.

When I type this:

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find /home/tc -name Applications
Nothing is returned.

In case it makes a difference, my jwm version is vsvn-456 with compiled options:
confirm icons png shape xft xinerama xpm xrender
system config: /usr/local/etc/system.jwmrc

[Paulo]

By the way, just did a reboot with backup and my addition to wbar is not persistent.

EDIT:

Ignore, forgot to add it to .filetool.lst

EDIT 2:

I see that when one adds an entry to wbar, it's placed as the last item on the right hand side but after a reboot
it's placed alphabetically after any tinycore-SomeName.desktop.