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elephantos

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Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 31

no .stalonetrayrc file [SOLVED]

note: meant to post this in the DE board, sorry.

hey everyone, after installing the stalonetray package, there is no .stalonetrayrc file. any idea why?

[jh@jh ~]$ stalonetray --dbg-level 8
3960 (dpy) 15:42:23 [0] read_settings(): stalonetray 0.7.6 [ XPM:yes DEBUG:yes KDE:yes ] starting
3960 (dpy) 15:42:23 [0] parse_rc(): could not open /home/jh/.stalonetrayrc (No such file or directory)

[jh@jh ~]$ locate stalonetray
/var/lib/pacman/community/stalonetray-0.7.6-1
/var/lib/pacman/community/stalonetray-0.7.6-1/depends
/var/lib/pacman/community/stalonetray-0.7.6-1/desc
/var/lib/pacman/sync/community/stalonetray-0.7.6-1
/var/lib/pacman/sync/community/stalonetray-0.7.6-1/depends
/var/lib/pacman/sync/community/stalonetray-0.7.6-1/desc

Last edited by elephantos (2008-06-14 07:01:53)

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ThomasAdam

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From: Southampton, England

Registered: 2005-10-26

Posts: 148

Re: no .stalonetrayrc file [SOLVED]

note: meant to post this in the DE board, sorry.

Because you've not created one.

A package should never go creating any configuration options in $HOME -- this is a clear policy violation.

[jh@jh ~]$ locate stalonetray

You really meant:

pacman -Ql stalonetray

And note that often if a package has a global RC file, copying the file as ~/.foonamerc and editing it there might suffice, but this is application dependant you should do some reading.

-- Thomas Adam

Arkane

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2008-02-18

Posts: 263

Re: no .stalonetrayrc file [SOLVED]

There definitely won't be a ~/.stalonetray file, because pacman never creates files in users' home directories.

And there's no example stalonetrayrc file either because, even though one is provided in the source tarball, make install doesn't place it anywhere. If you need one, download the source yourself.

P.S.: pacman -Ql <package> will give you better results than locate when searching for files belongigng to a certain package.

EDIT: 34s late.

Last edited by Arkane (2008-06-13 21:02:18)

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bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: no .stalonetrayrc file [SOLVED]

P.S.: pacman -Ql <package> will give you better results than locate when searching for files belongigng to a certain package.

Especially if you don't update the locate database first.

elephantos

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Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 31

Re: no .stalonetrayrc file [SOLVED]

thanks, pacman -Ql is a big help.

i wish the man page specified having to retrieve the default stalonetrayrc file from source or building it yourself.

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