Newbie:I've trashed my launch bar/shelf/task bar whatever

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#1

Yes I was stuffing about inside the Shelf Cfg applit trying to plend the 2
bars together (the launch bar/task bar on oneside & the shelf bar on the
otherside), By putting a launch bar & task bar on the same side as the
shelf bar with all the shortcuts, then deleting the original launch & task
bar. But I got a big GUI crash. Now I just get a blank Desktop & if I right
click the mouse & click ‘shelf Cfg’ in the contextual menu nothing happens.

How do I get everything back? Thanks.

If worse come to worse I’ll spose I’ll have to re-install.

BTW, I’m new to Unix, so I’m just wondering how I set up my printer (Epson
600, its s’pose to be supported), so I can click the printer button on say
the voyager button bar & the page prints away.

I managed to install the wheelmouse driver from QNXstart by walking into a
bookstore & copying the ‘gunzip filename.tar.gz’ & the ‘tar xvf
filename.tar’ terminal commands out of a Unix book & using them, then
searching arround for a file with the same name to replace. & it all worked
out ok.

Do I need to know some esoteric terminal commands to re-install my GUI &
setup my printer? (the terminal still comes up when I click it in the
‘rightclick’ contextual menu)

BTW, There’s a ESS Maestro2 driver avaliable at BeBits, would it be possible
to reverse engineer that for QNX?

Also can someone recommend a good Unix book that pertinent to QNX, that also
explains all the BASH commands?

Thanks

#2

I did the same thing with the launch bar, and I did it with the ROOT account
( note: you should avoid doing anything as ROOT in any Unix type OS when
possible!) But I did find a way to get it back:
If you didn’t trash the ROOT account shelf, login as root and use File
Manager to locate shelf.cfg in a subdirectory of /root ( I forget which.)
Copy this file. Then locate the shelf.cfg for the user profile that got
wrecked and rename it. The final step is to paste the good copy of shelf.cfg
in the old ones place. Done
If you trashed ROOT, like me, there are a couple of extra steps
because you can’t access the root dir. except as the root user): when you
logon, enter a terminal session and type pfm. This starts File Manager, now
browse and copy, and replace shelf.cfg.
Good Luck
“Mick” <mickvb@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
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Yes I was stuffing about inside the Shelf Cfg applit trying to plend the 2
bars together (the launch bar/task bar on oneside & the shelf bar on the
otherside), By putting a launch bar & task bar on the same side as the
shelf bar with all the shortcuts, then deleting the original launch & task
bar. But I got a big GUI crash. Now I just get a blank Desktop & if I
right
click the mouse & click ‘shelf Cfg’ in the contextual menu nothing
happens.

How do I get everything back? Thanks.

If worse come to worse I’ll spose I’ll have to re-install.

BTW, I’m new to Unix, so I’m just wondering how I set up my printer (Epson
600, its s’pose to be supported), so I can click the printer button on say
the voyager button bar & the page prints away.

I managed to install the wheelmouse driver from QNXstart by walking into a
bookstore & copying the ‘gunzip filename.tar.gz’ & the ‘tar xvf
filename.tar’ terminal commands out of a Unix book & using them, then
searching arround for a file with the same name to replace. & it all
worked
out ok.

Do I need to know some esoteric terminal commands to re-install my GUI &
setup my printer? (the terminal still comes up when I click it in the
‘rightclick’ contextual menu)

BTW, There’s a ESS Maestro2 driver avaliable at BeBits, would it be
possible
to reverse engineer that for QNX?

Also can someone recommend a good Unix book that pertinent to QNX, that
also
explains all the BASH commands?

Thanks