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Re: Panel entries

dummy@example.com (TomE) — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:32:26 +0000

I forgot that the panel save its config when it exits you should be able to exit the panel and then make the changes

Re: Panel entries

dummy@example.com (SimonJ) — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:25:58 +0000

I did it manually, changing the files and the panel reference, but on logout it rewrites the panels.xml and saves new .rc files to match.

Oh well, I tried. :-) Thanks for the input.

Re: Panel entries

dummy@example.com (TomE) — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:54:54 +0000

It needs the numbers there, as if there more than one launcher there would only be one config.
You can tar up the ~/.config/xfce4/panel/ dir and it will be transferable.

If you really want it without the numbers and only have one of each item, something like this should work (I've not tested and it may destroy the world )

sed -i -e s/-.*.rc/.rc/ ~/.config/xfce4/panel/panels.xml

for i in `ls ~/.config/xfce4/panel`; do
  cd ~/.config/xfce4/panel
  replace=`echo $i | sed s/-.*.rc/.rc/`
  cp $i $replace
  rm $i
done

Panel entries

dummy@example.com (SimonJ) — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 07:32:52 +0000

I have had a look in ~/.config/xfce4/panel and see the panel entries with numeric suffixes eg. clock-5.rc and then some with what I guess is a session id eg. launcher-11627105420.rc

Then in panels.xml I can see the list of these launchers. Can I edit them to remove the session id's and therefore make them stick even if I save another session? I guess I'd need to do the filenames and the entries in panels.xml.

Also can I then make a backup of these so I can drop them into a new installation and voila, desktop done!

I hope all that makes sense,

TIA