What do you do?
Saturday, January 28, 2012 by LizMarr | Discussion: OS Customization
When after a computer crash one of the DesktopX gadgets appears to be loading off-screen someplace? The others are running fine, just this one disappeared. It says it is loaded and running, but I don't see it.
Reply #2 Saturday, January 28, 2012 11:44 AM
If it is a gadget, as the OP states, it won't be listed in the navigator. In which case you'd have to go to "C:\Users\Jim Dillard\AppData\Local\Stardock\DesktopX\GadgetCache" using your info, of course, and delete the cache.
Then, in order to run the same gadget again, you may actually need to run a registry cleaner. I think this happened before and there is a thread about it. If memory serves, there is a registry entry that controls the persistence of placement of a gadget. So, without fixing the registry entry, the same gadget, run again, would still appear off screen.
If in fact it IS part of a theme, it is an object, not a widget. A WIDGET, run outside of a DX theme (all by itself) also wouldn't show in the navigator, unless it was imported into a desktop (becomes an object). The address above would then be used, except instead of gadget cache, you'd go to the widget cache.
I hope this is helpful and not too technical. But these very different scenarios would each produce different behaviors and need different fixes.
I'll see if I can find the thread mentioned above.
Reply #3 Saturday, January 28, 2012 12:09 PM
Reply #4 Saturday, January 28, 2012 12:13 PM
Oops, It does say gadget, doesn't it.
Redneck to the Rescue! 
Reply #5 Saturday, January 28, 2012 12:16 PM
Redneck to the Rescue!
lol...also, if you check, it was you, Wiz, who had the problem before. Rosco came to the rescue....you, like myself, are getting old...lol. 
Reply #6 Saturday, January 28, 2012 12:56 PM
Hey, I resen....
What was the subject again?
Reply #7 Saturday, January 28, 2012 4:48 PM
Darn little bugger - Venom Volume BTW - doesn't leave a DeskX icon in the tray. It has one of it's own. Same as the task manager,C:\ blah\blah\blah\dxwidget.exe -loadwidget:C:\blah\blah\blah\Venom Volume.exe
Delete its furry little... cache, and there it is. I was getting tired of the volume control that comes from Stardock. It's not as responsive. Perhaps this might not have been as much of a problem if Windows still had the move command (or I could remember what the keystroke is if I don't see one on the icon - it's been awhile. They got one on the left side icon of the menu bar - what the heck good is that if your window ran away off screen?
Now I gotta move the silly little bar to get just the right shade of blue to match all the other little things. I'm still working on finding the place in Rainy's Chromophore skin that does color - and also the one that stores all the custom calendar stuff like icons and so on. I found the default. Then my next project is to figure out how to program that into a skin that is without it. AND I want the thing to show me the event list for the day that I click on... Not just a hover list. I just stare at it a little at a time, I'm still on fine-tuning the colors some how.
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Reply #1 Saturday, January 28, 2012 7:23 AM
If the widget is part of a DX theme:
Right-click on the systray icon and select Navigate objects. Find the missing widget in the Widget list. If the X and y numbers are both negative numbers, change them to a positve value. Example x -340 y-200 to x300 y300.
Close Navigator and restart DX.
Let me know the name of the lost widget if you need help finding it in the list.