Tools

Introduction

This page is dedicated to tools located at /usr/share/plainDE/tools/. Currently there are 2 tools written in Python.

genconfig.py

This tool is responsible for creating config.json. This simple tool is started when plainPanel can’t find file located at ~/.config/plainDE/config.json. It writes options from dictionary to the json file.

update-config.py

This tool updates config when needed. It is ran every time plainPanel starts. First of all, it checks configVersion entry. If configVersion does not match version written at /usr/share/plainDE/release_data, it renames your config.json to config.json.sav and runs genconfig.py to create a new config. Then it checks differences between configs. Changes are made when:

• A new entry found
• Entry has different type of data (i.e., string->int)

When the second case happens, we rewrite this entry completely with new default value.

Troubleshooting

If the config.json got broken, you can feel free to delete ~/.config/plainDE/config.json file and start plainPanel again. It will automatically generate new config.json

Conclusion

Tools described above help you to create & update your config.json.