G'day,
I run pwidgets as a 'must-work' app for every Pup I install.
In recent Pups, Fulls and Frugals, and not just Stretch, I find on first re-boot that pwidgets isn't being run, even though there is a script in /root/Startup to run pwidgets. There's something odd in some latest Pups booting process when running X? It's not just pwidgets that seems "overlooked" during X for me, albeit not always
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I load pwidgets as a pet into Full Pups and from an sfs in Frugals.
When pwidgets doesn't appear when I think it should
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1) I run restartX form the Exit/Leave menu (click 'Restart graphical server') , pwidgets may now appear, along with other icons not fully loaded during first re-booting X in a new Pup.
2) If restartX doesn't bring up pwidgets, opening /root/Startup and clicking the '0_show_widgets' icon will display my pwidgets. I've dragged this file from /root to the pinboard to save time in some cases.
Another thing to check is that the 'fixwidgets' in /usr/sbin is there, and executable, as this is a critical file in pwidgets.
eps,
How are you loading pwidgets and which version is it?
Are its files and directories where you expect?
Try a terminal run of pwidgets for possible helpful error messages?
Good luck with it.
David S.