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arpinux

#! Die Hard

From: Montréal, France

Registered: 2009-01-15

Posts: 685

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How to have scripts in lxpanel menu

hi #!ers
yes, that's the question: how to have conkywonky (or any script) on your lxpanel menu (or any panel working with freedesktop format)?
you just have to create a conkywonky.desktop in your /usr/share/applications.
so first,

gksudo gedit /usr/share/applications/conkywonky.desktop

then, put something like this inside:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=conkywonky
GenericName=ConkyWonky
Comment=restart conky
Categories=GNOME;
Icon=ckw.png
Exec=conkywonky
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Type=Application

and of course, make it executable

sudo chmod -x /usr/share/applications/conkywonky.desktop

the line Icon point on your /usr/share/pixmaps by default, so, you can choose or create an icon for conkywonky
you can take mine if you want

and sudo copy it to your /usr/share/pixmaps

now, you just have to left clic on lxpanel launchbar applet, select 'add' and go to your conkywonky.desktop.
done: you've got conkywonky in your lxpanel
and what it looks like:

and of course you can do it with any #! scripts or with your own scripts
hope it could be useful/fun
bye

corenominal

root

From: Lincoln, UK

Registered: 2008-11-20

Posts: 4,887

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Re: How to have scripts in lxpanel menu

Cool "how to", thank you for taking the time to write it. By the way, I love that conkywonky icon, nice work!

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arpinux

#! Die Hard

From: Montréal, France

Registered: 2009-01-15

Posts: 685

Website

Re: How to have scripts in lxpanel menu

^thx corenominal, icon made with default 'refresh' icon from Tango set (i'm sure you guess   )

zeltak

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Registered: 2009-08-10

Posts: 23

Re: How to have scripts in lxpanel menu

Hi

Was wondering if it works with tint2 (i also installed lxpanel but couldn't get it working)

what i would love would be to get only the line in conky for mpd in my panel

thx

Zeltak