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Great! Thanks Dolphin and Fehlix - will wait for the new mx-system upgrade to fix the issue.
BTW, I used to delete the Conky and Imagemagic desktop files when they were pushed in the past, but they would reappear regardless - hence the question.
Hope these will be fixed next time.
Thanks again, MX ...

Thanks Fehlix!
Do I need to edit the "menulibre.desktop" in ~/.local/share/applications/ and insert "Exec=prog | TryExec=prog"
It currently reads:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.1
Type=Application
Name=Menu Editor
Comment=Add or remove applications from the menu
Icon=menulibre
OnlyShowIn=Budgie;Cinnamon ...

Hi Dolphin, my question was how to prevent the installation of these desktop files if the executables are not present?
But I guess these 2 apps are "must-have" parts of the MX SOE, so they are forced on the users regardless, bummer :)

Thank you Fehlix, I will try this TryExec hack the next time

I have a heavily customised MX with XFCE4 desktop. I do NOT use Conky and Imagemagic, they are not installed.
However, after each "full" upgrade I get desktop files for these installed by default - please refer to the screenshot attached.

looking at some of the installation information, I'm wondering if the fact that the dock driver loads AFTER ligthdm, and the fact that we have an init script fro lightdm as well as a systemd service, may be causing you some grief.


Yes - editing lightdm.conf and moving the autologin commands to ...

The MX Snapshot and Live USB Maker worked well, except for a couple of minor glitches:
1) My default system locale is set to en_AU.UTF-8 (Australian English) so when I boot the new live USB I'm greeted with the message: "You've logged in in a new language. You can automatically update the names of ...

Awesome!
Thank you so much mate, I would have never guesssed :)
You're a Lagend!

My /home/me/.config/MX-Linux/xdg_check file is empty i.e. 0 bytes
/Desktop folder is also completely empty inside

Thanks, lightdm restored.
On a side note - which files (or sim links?) do I need to copy from /home/me/ to /etc/skel/ for MX Snapshot - to create a distribution-quality ISO clone of my build?
If I copy everything, it bloats up skel but the result works, albeit with sudo minstall only (no install ...

Hi mate, cheers for getting back to me with this issue, greatly asppreciated!

1) The driver comes from here : https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/displaylink-debian/releases/tag/v5.7.0.2
2) After running <sudo update-rc.d lightdm remove> the results are:
a) under "normal" login the system boots, but ...