Irritating yad popup window– Solved, Thanks Dave

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I keep getting a yad popup box on every icewm login.

Message is: would you like to update /home/myuser/menu with etc/skel/.icewm/menu?
two buttons Abbruch=cancel I guess and Ok

Any help to get rid of it would be highly appreciated.

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[Member Xecure]

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I have never experienced this. You could follow the name of the window and see if you can find it in htop. There, it should say what script is being launched that calls for this window to pop up.
Did this happen after updating icewm to the newest version anticapitalista uploaded to the repos?

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Sounds like you may have enabled an option in desktop-session.conf that up until this point close to no one has tried. On startup it checks if there are newer versions of the home files (the user’s home files are not touched on an update) and notifies you of differing (updated) files. These files are set in ~/.desktop-session/file_compare. The check is enabled in ~/.desktop-session/desktop-session.conf. Below is a caption from the default config file and file_compare settings.
~/.desktop-session/desktop-session.conf

#Session Protect.
#This is how to protect the user from automatic updating of any file within desktop-session.
#Examples are the menu, any file compare within file_compare, etc
#Options for this are: 
#SESSION_PROTECT="true #Strictly protect the user, leave the user to deal with any of the updating
#SESSION_PROTECT="ask #Notify me at startup of any changes and allow me to choose what to update
#SESSION_PROTECT="false #Just update me, I dont want to worry about falling behind.
SESSION_PROTECT="false"

~/.desktop-session/file_compare

#This is the config file to run a config compare
#This is based on:
#which window manager (based on "wm >")
#which "Source File" (based on "Source File |")
#which "Destination File" (based on "| Destination File"
#"global | " denotes a comparison for all window managers
#Example:
#global | /etc/skel/.bashrc | ~/.bashrc

#Window Manager | Source File | Destination File
icewm | /etc/skel/.icewm/menu | ~/.icewm/menu
#icewm | /etc/skel/.icewm/applications | ~/.icewm/applications
jwm | /etc/skel/.jwm/menu | ~/.jwm/menu
#jwm | /etc/skel/.jwm/applications | ~/.jwm/applications
fluxbox | /etc/skel/.fluxbox/menu | ~/.fluxbox/menu
#fluxbox | /etc/skel/.fluxbox/applications | ~/.fluxbox/menu
openbox | /etc/skel/.openbox/menu | ~/.config/openbox
#openbox | /etc/skel/.openbox/menu | ~/.config/openbox
#global | /etc/desktop-session/file-compare-test | ~/file-compare-test

It seems like you likely have the configuration set to
SESSION_PROTECT="ask"
Pressing ok should move the file from /etc/skel/.icewm/menu to ~/.icewm/menu. Pressing cancel should would leave it as is (and notify again next login unless you comment that file out in ~/desktop-session/file_compare)

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[Member ModdIt]

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Thanks Dave,
SESSION_PROTECT=”ask” was the problem,
It was even stated I changed the setting on on 16 Sept,
Interesting because that is in the future, today is 13.
I had a system clock problem after
installing a new BIOS battery on a computer which had been mothballed for months.
time and date changes refused to stick at first.

How I came to change that somewhat obscure setting no idea.

Anyway Many thanks for the help.

[Member seaken64]

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Wow, that sounded like a Star Trek moment – time warp! 🙂

Seaken64

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antiX – back to the future … 🙂

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

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