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danwood 
Remove Backdrop Window From Workbench?
Posted on 13-Oct-2014 16:06:48
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Just set up OS 3.9 on my new 040 A4000 with Picasso IV, 256 mb of RAM and X-Surf-100 ethernet.

However, I have a weird problem, the backdrop window on Workbench won't disable on boot. If I go to the Workbench menu and untick it, it vanishes. I then click on the Workbench and try Snapshot Window and Snapshot all, I've also snapshotted all the drive icons and windows too, but every time I reboot the backdrop window is back on!

Is there any other way to disable it on boot, or any reason why it wouldn't shapshot?

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Daedalus 
Re: Remove Backdrop Window From Workbench?
Posted on 13-Oct-2014 16:49:22
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@danwood

I can't remember for sure where the Workbench window setting is saved, but I think it was in the disk.info file of the SYS: volume. Do you have some funky icon on your boot drive maybe? Or no icon at all? Or is the disk.info file write-protected? Sometimes files copied from CD can be set as read-only - did you do the installation via WinUAE or something like that?

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danwood 
Re: Remove Backdrop Window From Workbench?
Posted on 14-Oct-2014 4:57:25
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@Daedalus

I did set the system up in WinUAE, but the icons are just the standard ones 3.9 puts on.

I've tried issuing

PROTECT SYS: +W ALL

from Shell, and then snapshotting and rebooting again, but it still comes back. How frustrating!

Any other ideas?

I set my 1200 hard disk up the same way and it works fine on that.

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jPV 
Re: Remove Backdrop Window From Workbench?
Posted on 14-Oct-2014 5:00:22
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@danwood

Try "protect sys:disk.info +D" too? Maybe whole icon is deleted/rewritten? Just a quick guess.. :)

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danwood 
Re: Remove Backdrop Window From Workbench?
Posted on 14-Oct-2014 5:09:21
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@jPV

Ok, after a bit more investigation with snoopdos, it seems it's not stored on sys:disk.info, it's actually in envarc:sys/workbench.prefs

I deleted that file, rebooted, and ran Workbench prefs again and it sorted it, gone now :)

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Re: Remove Backdrop Window From Workbench?
Posted on 14-Oct-2014 9:23:50
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@danwood

Ah, good to know. I remember having strange files write-protected after installing OS3.9 in a WinUAE setup. Probably due to the CD drive emulation...

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Posted on 14-Oct-2014 13:11:35
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@danwood

Nice setup. Does that mean you like a bordered (normal) Workbench window? I didn't know you could save that.

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@danwood

hello hope you are well
will you be doing a youtube on 4000

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