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fhsm

#! Junkie

From: New Hampshire, USA

Registered: 2009-01-05

Posts: 443

System wide search and a control panel

Maybe this is basic for everyone else but I had to look around for it:
You can search your whole system with alt+f3 gnome-search-tool which is nice but it is so easy to add a keyboard binding...

<keybind key="W-s">
 <action name="Execute">
  <startupnotify>
   <enabled>true</enabled>
   <name>Search</name>
  </startupnotify>
   <command>gnome-search-tool</command>
  </action>
</keybind>

Now Super+S will get you the search gui.

Most of the xfce settings app is deep linked in the default menu the on exception is the keyboard setup, had I know this was on the system I might have saved a lot of time fooling around w/ xmodmap.

so alt+f3 xfce-setting-show will get you there or in menu.xml:

    
<item label="Control Panel">
 <action name="Execute">
  <execute>
     xfce-setting-show
  </execute>
 </action>
</item> 

If you just want to add a menu item for the keyboard you can do:

<item label="Keyboard">
 <action name="Execute">
  <execute>
     xfce-setting-show keyboard
   </execute>
 </action>
</item> 

Hope that helps someone.

update
I now use catfish instead of gnome-search.  To use catfish:

sudo apt-get install catfish

<keybind key="W-s">
 <action name="Execute">
  <startupnotify>
   <enabled>true</enabled>
   <name>Search</name>
  </startupnotify>
   <command>catfish --fileman=thunar --path=/</command>
  </action>
</keybind>

Last edited by fhsm (2009-06-11 01:51:25)

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Nik_Doof

#! Junkie

Registered: 2008-12-13

Posts: 361

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Re: System wide search and a control panel

This will be handy for people from non-en areas. Thanks for the tip!

nabilalk

#! Die Hard

From: U.S.A.

Registered: 2009-01-28

Posts: 531

Re: System wide search and a control panel

Maybe this is basic for everyone else but I had to look around for it:
You can search your whole system with alt+f3 gnome-search-tool which is nice but it is so easy to add a keyboard binding...

<keybind key="W-s">
 <action name="Execute">
  <startupnotify>
   <enabled>true</enabled>
   <name>Search</name>
  </startupnotify>
   <command>gnome-search-tool</command>
  </action>
</keybind>

Now Super+S will get you the search gui.

Most of the xfce settings app is deep linked in the default menu the on exception is the keyboard setup, had I know this was on the system I might have saved a lot of time fooling around w/ xmodmap.

so alt+f3 xfce-setting-show will get you there or in menu.xml:

    
<item label="Control Panel">
 <action name="Execute">
  <execute>
     xfce-setting-show
  </execute>
 </action>
</item> 

If you just want to add a menu item for the keyboard you can do:

<item label="Keyboard">
 <action name="Execute">
  <execute>
     xfce-setting-show keyboard
   </execute>
 </action>
</item> 

Hope that helps someone.

update
I now use catfish instead of gnome-search.  To use catfish:

sudo apt-get install catfish

<keybind key="W-s">
 <action name="Execute">
  <startupnotify>
   <enabled>true</enabled>
   <name>Search</name>
  </startupnotify>
   <command>catfish --fileman=thunar --path=/</command>
  </action>
</keybind>

Thanks for the tip about catfish. It is much more user friendly and seems faster than the gnome search tool.

Last edited by nabilalk (2010-01-24 05:42:36)

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