Re: Recommendations for a small, light, app-launcher button bar
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:58:41PM -0700, William Ballard wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:11:00PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> > where the fixMenu is a simple shell script to update things when new
> > apps are installed.
> >
> > This gives me a list of my common apps at the top of the main menu.
> >
> > Don't know if this is what you really want, though. HTH.
>
> That's exactly what I want. I'd never thought of the "fixMenu" trick
> which is probably why I didn't think it was a good idea to edit the
> menu. I'll do this. Thanks!
...
I like Stephen's suggestion too (I use currently that for xscreensaver
only). Only thing about it is remembering which key goes with which
app. :-)
The fixMenu script is a bad hack of mine (I'm not really geeky, so
don't have a smooth approach to this stuff--I'd love to grok the sed
approach to this...).
My menu is drawn out of fluxbox's system-wide menu:
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daddy:~# cat ~/bin/fixMenu
#!/bin/bash
# This updates the fluxbox menu, inserting my own common items
# (text file personalStuff) at the beginning of the menu.
# That includes an item to update the menu using this script.
# This script must be placed in the path (in this case $HOME/bin)
# for that line item to work. See personalStuff.
cd $HOME/.fluxbox
cp /etc/X11/fluxbox/fluxbox-menu fmenu
# The numbers 8 and 9 are chosen based on the standard format of the
# menu generated in /etc/X11/fluxbox.
# LOOK OUT FOR CHANGES TO THAT FILE!
head -8 fmenu > H
tail --lines=+9 fmenu > T
cat H personalStuff T > menu
rm T H fmenu
07:39:18
daddy:~#
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where personalStuff is in ~/.fluxbox/ and contains the added lines for
the menu.
Kenward
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