PNDs in /pandora/desktop

[hmc]

Hi guys,


this may be a dumb question.. so sorry if it is ;-)


But - for the frist time now I put some PNDs into the /pandora/desktop directory of my SD card, and assumed that the PND system will create shortcuts on the desktop, which I can start the programs with.


Not so - on the desktop there are now ".desktop" files, and if I click them, the Mousepad editor opens and shows the contents of the desktop files.


As far as I know, .desktop files are the correct starting point for a program launcher.


So, the problem might not be the PND system, but XFCE not handling the .desktop files on the desktop correctly?


Any pointers?


Thanks a lot,


Daniel

 

[milkshake]

what firmware hotfix are you using? HF6 is the latest, have you made any adjustments to the OS? or kernel?

 

[hmc]

I am running HF6, with no significant adjustments to OS or kernel (to my knowledge).


Of course I adapted a lot of settings of my system, but nothing obviously related to handling of .desktop files on the desktop...


What could matter is that I didn't flash the entire HF6 firmware, but I think I flashed the HF5 firmware back then and later upgraded using HF6.


What's non-standard here is that I didn't install the FW on NAND, but on an SD card's first partition.


Daniel

 

[Darkknight512]

It should work fine, I think it might be an issue of upgrading to HF6, I think a few people have had problems. Try a reinstall.

 

[milkshake]

ok well I know it sounds like a pain but the quickest way I would handle this is just to flash HF6 from scratch to ur SD card using the sd card installer (you also have options for creating swap space using this too )


http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=sd-install-2011-03-10

 

[hmc]

okay will do. I planned a complete reinstall anyway, after testing some things I, which I didn't want to sacrifice a new clean system for.


Thanks for your comments. Much appreciated.


Daniel

ok well I know it sounds like a pain but the quickest way I would handle this is just to flash HF6 from scratch to ur SD card using the sd card installer (you also have options for creating swap space using this too )


http://repo.openpand...tall-2011-03-10

wow, thanks, I wasn't aware that there is an SD installer! Will try it tomorrow on a spare SD card.


I did this all manually by now, including swap space setup.


Daniel

 

[hmc]

Reflashing the firmware indeed solved the desktop issue.