I am totally noob to this, but been fiddling a bit. I loaded up litestep, told it to run its shell, and then installed a theme. Works fine unless goto the taskmanager that you get in windows via CTRL+ALT+DEL. I can close things down with that, but as soon as I exit out of it, litestep crashes. I can relaunch using the taskmanager run command and exiting out of it before litestep completely reloads.

I'm using the Intuition theme, and my Windows XP is SP2 with all the recent updates that I can think of.

And I would have search, except the search tool on the forum is broke.

Anyhow help would be appreciated.

did you update to .24.7 Final?

Whoa... freaky. At first I was thinking "noob..." (no offense :D), but I get the error too. I'm going to have a look through the theme's config and see what's up.

I believe I have updated. Just checked in the "about" for litestep, and it says .24.7

EDIT: lol xcal. I am more of a hardware person, so troubleshooting software, espcially at this level, is not my cup of tea.

And while I am asking, I need to go back through and edit was in my quicklaunch bar in windows. I checked the popup rc file, and just found the quicklaunch section is reference to a file of some sort, from what it looked like. Anyclue as to where to find this file or am I just seeing things?

The problem seems to have to do something with how systray2 (ancient tray module) removes the task manager icon from the tray. You can verify this by quitting Litestep, opening the task manager, and restarting Litestep. You'll notice, in that situation, the icon isn't in the tray (that seems to be a bug across all Litestep tray modules - even xTray. so a core issue?). Closing the task manager in this case doesn't cause the error. Opening the task manager while Litestep is running... icon shows up... close the task manager... dead Litestep. That error doesn't happen in xTray (newest tray module).

Find a registry hack or something to make the task manager not create the tray icon in the first place seems to be the only fix, unless you really want to dig in and replace that old tray module. (Or you can just go in the traybox.box file, and comment out the line that starts *WharfModule, but you'll have no tray.)

xcal: unable to reproduce the error. tried every possible scenario, but the damn thing won't crash. am running 'old' and 'ancient' systray2 (no xmodules here) - and taskmgr's icon showing up just fine after closing and/or restarting LS and/or taskmanager

Yeah...same here. Are there any systray icons being hid by the theme?

Hmm that's really strange... I wonder what me and Azuremen have in common to cause the crash, if you two aren't getting it. I can recreate the crash consistently, everytime, as described above.

I'm running XP SP2, newest experimental build, not hiding any icons.

If anyone else wants to ring in on it, the theme is here.

my advice would be just not to use that theme

Well ya, that would be the obvious answer. But, that takes the fun out of finding the problem. =)

Well...it definetly is that theme. My best guess would be that it is being caused by not systray2 as it isn't loaded, but by the even older systray2-lsbox. It looks like the theme.rc also contains an install for vtray. I wonder if it would be wise to switch to that instead of that stupid lsbox systray.

Another idea would be to switch to a theme like 18 or 21. I know both of them work just fine. They also load systray2-2.0.1.dll in a box instead of systray2-lsbox. Good luck guys.

Ya, I meant systray2-lsbox, not regular systray2. :P

I have icons being hid. Kinda wondering how to change that since I cannot access startmenu and taskbar setups anymore. Clicking on it from the system/control panel link does nothing.