[iyonix-support] Re: A minor inconvenience

  • From: Chris Evans <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Iyonix ML <iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 17:10:05 +0000 (GMT)

On Thu 04 Nov, Richard Ashbery wrote:
> 
> In article <Marcel-1.53-1104144522-bbapErr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>    Chris Evans <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > I've just tried with an older copy of Boot
> 
> > What about $.apps $.printing $.utilities
> 
> > Applications in all those directories are Filer booted during boot
> > up
> 
> > you can rename them temporarily and use an empty $.apps
> 
> That might be useful to remember in future troubleshooting - isn't it
> the case that Filer_Run is more of a problem than Filer_boot. Filer_boot
> tells the OS where the program can be loaded from but doesn't actually
> load it. May be I have misunderstood.

Generally yes but most apps even when only Filer_boot'd make various
settings etc that can potentialy cause problems.

> In my experience quite a few problems are caused by software
> interactions as in my problem.

Yep!
 
> I know you can see all the Run-at-startup programs by carefully
> examining the Desktop file in Boot.Choices.Boot but wouldn't it be nice
> to see the whole program path when you are dragging files/programs to
> the Run-at-startup window.


Chris Evans

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