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	Benson	2008-06-30 , 19:16
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Originally Posted by sjgadsby

I've never used or even looked at Powerlaunch before, but according to the "Powerlaunch" section on the "Powerlaunch: Documentation" page, the software looks for its configuration files--both .conf and .glade--in "/home/user/.powerlaunch" and "/etc/powerlaunch", in that order. Also, by default, the file for which it looks is "powerlaunch.conf". There's an implication that there's a way to get fancy and specify either alternate or additional configuration files, but I didn't notice how to do that at a glance.

Exactly; the sane thing to do would be to copy them all to ~/.powerlaunch, and work there; as long as you can get access to remove that whole directory, you can restore to a known good state.

Myself, I rashly edited them in /etc/powerlaunch, and was sufficiently careful to rarely break things... Don't be an idiot like me, though; rarely is no substitute for never.

(Were I as careful as I ought to have been, I'd have had a whole list of breakable things that could easily be restored, and had a script run (very early) during bootup check the SD card for a file named AAARRRGH, and automatically restore them if that was detected, as I didn't even have a dual-boot at that time. But, what is there to say? I was young and foolish then.)

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