Ahoy Haikunauts !
On my desktop I have some replicants added to show stuff and help me using Haiku. I like them.
Unfortunately Haiku time-to-time destroy them. I just do not have them back after a shutdown and boot the machine later.
What I could do earlier ?.. I found the progs contains them, created the replicants onto desktop again - manually - and placed them back where I like to be placed …
After a some iteration it became very-very annoying … so I decided to read the ‘User Guide’ and it was good …
I was red the file ‘tracker_shelf’ and that hint :
if I remove it – all replicants would be removed …
Ha-ha thanks … Haiku does that automatically – I would like to have the opposite : an instant restore or at least a lesser painful !.. :((…
Ok, so then I thought :
- I keep it elsewhere if all replicants are rightful and placed as expected,
- copy back if shit happens
- restart Tracker or reboot Haiku if copy back in itself does not help !..
Well NOW … shit happened - all the replicants had gone again - I started to restore them in the slow, manual way … when I wanted to check it in ‘User Guide’ … it was done again … and then my leakege was patched and finally remembered I had kept a a ‘tracker_shelt’ already some monthes ago … so come on : follow pont 2) and 3) !
Ok, so point 2) (copying back ‘tracker_self’) was done flawlessly under Tracker settings …
… the problem started right after that … execute point 3)
Have the Tracker use the restored ‘tracker_shelf’.
(Now I finally understood why that little puppy is on its icon …)
After some failed attempts I felt myself as a cartoon hero that just frustrating and histerically angered themselves on a kind but cunny and intractable opponent
NOW Haiku (Tracker, the mean-spirited puppy !..) could guard the ‘trackewr_shelf’ (stubbornly do not let its swacky bone)
NOW when I wanted to replace it with a healthy one …
NOW It was instantly written back with halfbacked one as Tracker restarted … Or Haiku rebooted …
(possibly from memory area … Aaaaaarrrgh ! )
I tried to click on saved ‘tracker_shelf’ file … maybe Tracker re-read it as Terminal settings file reset back Terminal settings … unfortunately nothing happens …
I changed its setting of Opening application relation :
from ‘Default program’ to ‘Tracker’ …
… it had not helped … CLICK and nothing happened :((…
This way I changed back to ‘Default program’.
So, finally I gave up …
I get the replicants back
again
in manual way …
Man, I’m kind of lazy man who is stubborn to keep an easygoing restore the favoured settings back
and
furiating me if such things
what should have work as expected
just does not work due to their weirdo inner logic or mechanism.
On top of that I lost ‘System Volume’ from the systray so I cannot get its replicant back …
Anyway - if someone know some trick or hint how can I use the saved state to simply restore my Desktop with all the replicants …
…without all the manual labor …
I would be appreciated -
… a lot.
EDIT #1 :
At least I could figured out - I can resize Process Monitor window, and that way the charts are bigger now I mean higher, thicker, so drawings seen better, not so thin bands as earlier.
EDIT #2 :
At least I could restore the sound volume and its replicant.
I found - using User Guide – the ‘Media’ preferences contains the mixer settings. So I could add sound volume back.
Now the Desktop is back - as expected.
Until next accident :((…