Porteus

Posted: **25 Oct 2021, 07:14**

Hi,

I use XFCE. I get the popup message that a certain app got started and iconified in the notification area every time I start Porteus anew (app is Florence virtual keyboard).

I then click the "do not show this message again" part of that pop-up-notification (presumably done via notify-send) … but since I do not save changes but copy all settings what I want to keep manually… I need to know where this "do not show this message again" about a certain app is stored … I presume it's somewhere in guest's ~/ folder.

For now in all my Porteus systems (XFCE 3.12 Port 4.0i586 and XFCE 3.12 Port 5.0rc-current x86-64) I have to click "do not show this message again" after every reboot.

Posted: **25 Oct 2021, 08:23**

'changes-time <some seconds>' shortly after you start app/click "do not show this message again" might help narrow it down... a folder of of the most recent(in timespan) changes is dump in /root ...
does florence have a ~/.config/ florence/? configuration? or maybe it uses dconf (~/.config/dconf/user) ..

Posted: **25 Oct 2021, 11:35**

ncmprhnsbl wrote: ↑
25 Oct 2021, 08:23
'changes-time <some seconds>' shortly after you start app/click "do not show this message again" might help narrow it down... a folder of of the most recent(in timespan) changes is dump in /root ...
does florence have a ~/.config/ florence/? configuration? or maybe it uses dconf (~/.config/dconf/user) ..

Currently I have my x86-64 machine with the 5.0rc-current shut down due to planned hardware maintenance.

But since I am finished with today's work… and the sun is shining and we have a near-perfect golden Indian summer (here we call it "Altweibersommer"- literally "old women's summer") … so I have to get on my bike and enjoy the sun and the lovely coloured leaves …
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If you want to reply to the spoilers stuff above, please either do so via PM - or put it into General chat - and send me a PM so that I know about it. Please do not reply on that here since it's off topic.

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My 32 bit Porteus 4.0 system has only Florence.desktop in ~/

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guest@porteus:~$ find .|grep -i florence
./.config/autostart/Florence.desktop

There is no file named florence in /root:

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root@porteus:~# find .|grep -i florence
root@porteus:~#

I thought the notification area info via notify-send is made by the system, either by XFCE or by 00[12]*.xzm, not by the app that gets iconified into the notification area? Seems I was mistaken.

I presume florence uses dconf (~/.config/dconf/user) since you can change its settings and it recalls these settings.
Sadly, I do not know of a "dconf browser" that would give us human-readable info what programs store info in dconf.

As soon as my main x86-64 machine maintenance is over (hopefully successfully) I start up 5.0rc-current and will then do the changes-time … and report back here.
But I am not sure if it helps when changes-time only gives dconf as possible file… since I already put the florence-updated guest's dconf into my rootcopy/ folder… still the notification comes up.

Still, I re-check if florence is in the autostart of XFCE and really auto-started after a new boot-up… and the save the dconf once again after clicking "do not show this message again"… and reboot for sh*ts and giggles. And report back.

Posted: **25 Oct 2021, 20:28**

I used my one-liner with the correct date and time search and found two files, dconf and xfce4-panel.xml - the later has an entry for florence.

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guest@porteus:~$ find . -mtime 0 2>/dev/null | xargs ls -oad --color=auto --time-style=long-iso 2>&1 |grep -vE "cache| .$| ..$"|grep "2021-10-25 22:12"
drwxr-xr-x  2 guest     60 2021-10-25 22:12 ./.config/dconf
-rw-r--r--  1 guest  13252 2021-10-25 22:12 ./.config/dconf/user
drwxr-xr-x  2 guest    300 2021-10-25 22:12 ./.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml
-rw-r--r--  1 guest   3691 2021-10-25 22:12 ./.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml

Copied both to what becomes my 992-rootcopy.xzm module. Will post update after I restarted the system.

Due to RL interfering I had to skip the hardware maintenance and start-up my shut down x86-64 Port 5.0rc-current system instead; maintenance will have to wait… and so will testing if dconf and xfce4-panel.xml do the trick in disabling the "do not show this message again" popup.

Will post update as soon as I restarted the system - tomorrow at the earliest. Unless RL demands otherwise and I do not have the time.

Posted: **28 Oct 2021, 18:28**

Update
From what I can say, seems ~/.config/dconf/user does the trick.

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Not sure if ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml is needed to be saved at all…

It contains this (only shown the part where florence is mentioned)

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      <property name="names-visible" type="array">
        <value type="string" value="networkmanager applet"/>
        <value type="string" value="clipit"/>
        <value type="string" value="florence"/>
        <value type="string" value="redshiftgui"/>
        <value type="string" value="thunar"/>
      </property>

and xfce4-notifyd.xml from the same folder this: (again only shown the part where florence is mentioned)

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<channel name="xfce4-notifyd" version="1.0">
  <property name="notify-location" type="uint" value="2"/>
  <property name="theme" type="string" value="Default"/>
  <property name="applications" type="empty">
    <property name="known_applications" type="array">
      <value type="string" value="Florence"/>
      <value type="string" value="Interlink"/>
      <value type="string" value="nm-applet"/>
      <value type="string" value="Thunar"/>
      <value type="string" value="Xfce volume control"/>
      <value type="string" value="Xfce4-notifyd settings"/>
      <value type="string" value="xfce4-settings-helper"/>
      <value type="string" value="xfdesktop"/>
    </property>
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Posted: **28 Oct 2021, 21:53**

another thing to do, if you're interested in exactly what settings(for florence or other) dconf stores: get dconf-editor (from current: getpkg dconf-editor) and wade through it's labyrinth..

non-graphically: i believe, gsettings list-recursively will show all settings current in dconf/user

Posted: **28 Oct 2021, 22:09**

^
Good tip, will check these out.

Yay for wading through a labyrinth… sounds like a good goal for long dark and gloomy winter nights, which are approaching since I am on the northern hemisphere.

Porteus

[Solved] XFCE - Where is "do not show this message again" notification area info stored?

[Solved] XFCE - Where is "do not show this message again" notification area info stored?

Where is "do not show this message again"notification area info stored?

Where is "do not show this message again"notification area info stored?

Where is "do not show this message again"notification area info stored?

Where is "do not show this message again"notification area info stored?

Where is "do not show this message again"notification area info stored?

Where is "do not show this message again"notification area info stored?