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Author: aitor_czr
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To: Edward Bartolo, Rainer Weikusat, dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] netman-autostart_0.1.1
Hi Edward, Rainer

On 01/06/2016 04:58 PM, Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???> wrote:
>> Maybe, this can shed some light on what is causing this problem. The
>> >first time dpkg-reconfigure is used on netman-gui it doesn't exit
>> >complaining the netman.desktop file is not found. This may mean the
>> >netman.desktop file is being deleted by a script called by
>> >dpkg-reconfigure, maybe, netman-gui.postinst?
>          2) db_get netman-gui/netman-autostart
>                  if [ "$RET" = "true" ]; then
>                          file="/etc/xdg/autostart/netman.desktop";
>                          mv/usr/share/applications/netman.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/
>                  fi
>          ;;

>
> This moves the /usr/share/applications/netman.desktop file to
> /etc/xdg/autostart, consequently, /usr/share/applications/netman.desktop
> doesn't exist anymore afterwards. And it doesn't do anything in order to
> disable autostartf if $RET is not true. If the /etc/xdg/autostart file
> is not supposed to be modified, I suggest creating a symlink instead, ie
>
> ln -s/usr/share/applications/netman.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/
>
> You could also use cp instead of mv so that the autostart file will be a
> copy of the original.



Sorry, today i had a family meal. Yes, this is what is causing the
"problem": if the user prefers to autostart netman automaticaly, the
script removes the launcher from xfce-applications.menu,
lxde-applications.menu, etc... But i can change "mv" by "cp" if you
prefer so.

Cheers,

    Aitor.