Simple "Start" menu button for tint2

KF7EEL · 2012-05-01 02:26:23

sudo apt-get install xdotool

Last edited by KF7EEL (2012-05-14 03:16:16)

VastOne · 2012-05-01 04:07:45

Nice How To KF7EEL...

I have added it to Quick References as Simple "Start" menu button with Tint2

You may want to consider renaming the title of this as the same so that anyone seeing it from that perspective will know it is for tint2..

Thanks!

fog · 2012-05-11 08:25:47

Nice howto.
My arch-openbox-netbook thanks you smile

Stanie · 2012-05-11 10:27:15

KF7EEL · 2012-05-14 22:17:13

Well, to start with, I found a few pieces of this on the arch forums.

VastOne · 2012-05-14 23:52:35

pvsage · 2012-05-15 00:27:56

Well, just `sudo {appname}` from gmrun will get you bubkes; gotta use gksu/gksudo in that case. I think there are some security issues when using sudo to open a GUI application from the terminal, but frankly I never paid much attention to that discussion.

Where's my nickel? tongue

VastOne · 2012-05-15 00:35:21

pvsage · 2012-05-15 00:37:24

^ lol Was fully expecting a plug nickel, FWIW...

hehsusss · 2012-10-24 14:51:08

AlanD · 2012-10-25 06:40:46

Nicely done. I find it hilarious that you use a mouse click to cause a simulated key press, to emulate a mouse click.

hehsusss, I never thought of having two tint2 bars side by side. Neat!

brontosaurusrex · 2012-10-25 07:18:43

@hehsusss; screenshot? (or it didn't happen)

hehsusss · 2012-10-26 10:09:16

sevensage · 2012-12-04 11:50:54

thanks for this KF7EEL, I followed the instructions however xdotool refused to open the popup menu. I reconfigured xfce keyboard shortcuts and even went so far as to install openbox in case the rc.xml file was required, both xfce and rx.xml pointing to the same keyboard shortcut.

long story short ...

xfce has its own command for a popup menu which doesn't require xdotool "xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu"

therefore, I uninstalled xdotool which was buggy on my system for some reason and my .desktop file looks as such:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=menu
Comment=menu launcher
Exec=xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu
Icon=/usr/share/icons/LinuxLex/places/start-here-poseidon.png
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Categories=Menu;
StartupNotify=true

Aside: the app menu button is for my wife tongue ... because a right click is "just sooo annoying"

thebonvoyage · 2013-02-03 21:32:05

tekhertz · 2013-02-10 15:53:53

Just wanted to add my little menu. It opens on click and closes on a second click. the only problems i have with it ar that it opens directly under the mouse(normal menu would be offset by the panel) and that if you close it by clicking elsewhere it will take two clicks to reopen it the next time.

#! /bin/bash
DISPLAYH=`xdpyinfo  | sed 's/^ *dimensions: *[0-9]*x\([0-9]*\).*/\1/;t;d'`
PANELH=`sed -e 's/^panel_size = [0-9]* \([0-9]*\).*/\1/;t;d' ~/.config/tint2/tint2rc`
MOUSEX="0"
MOUSEY=$(($DISPLAYH-$PANELH))
RESTORE=`xdotool getmouselocation 2> /dev/null | sed -e 's/x://' -e 's/y://' -e 's/ screen:.*$//'`
POSITION=`sed -e 's/^panel_position = \([a-z]*\).*/\1/;t;d' ~/.config/tint2/tint2rc`
if [ $POSITION = top ] ; then
MOUSEY=$PANELH
else
MOUSEY=$(($DISPLAYH-$PANELH))
fi
xdotool mousemove $MOUSEX $MOUSEY
xdotool key super+space
xdotool mousemove $RESTORE

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Start-here
Exec=$HOME/.config/tint2/start_menu.sh
Icon=/usr/share/icons/Faenza-Dark-CrunchBang/places/24/start-here-debian.png
Type=Application
GenericName=

*edit = I was using ~ in the quoted exec path, for some reason this was breaking.
*edit2 = ok even $HOME is inconsistent if it doesnt work just change it to the full path.
*edit3 = I added offsets pulled from tintrc and xdpyinfo

Last edited by tekhertz (2013-02-15 16:26:57)

GekkoP · 2013-07-01 07:53:24

Thank for this, useful to ease a couple of friend into #! world.

koz · 2014-06-07 09:45:07

Sorry for post necro - I found this very useful, and I'd like to ask how I can change the icon for the resulting 'start menu' (as mine looks like a rather hideous bunch of black and white pixels at the moment).

PackRat · 2014-06-07 13:44:29

In the menu.desktop file change -

Icon=mousepad

to the icon of your choice. For example -

Icon=menu_icon.png

if the icon is not located in the usual place - like /usr/share/pixmaps - you'll need to use the full path.

Last edited by PackRat (2014-06-07 13:47:42)

koz · 2014-06-07 22:16:12

Icon=mousepad

Last edited by koz (2014-06-07 22:18:13)

pressanykey · 2014-06-22 04:39:36

In the past, I've created a 16x16 transparent .png using gimp and named it do-nothing.png and I move it to /usr/share/pixmaps. Then, I create a do-nothing.desktop file in /usr/share/applications that sets its Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/do-nothing.png. And, I set its Exec=/bin/true. Then, using tint2's config file, I call /usr/share/applications/do-nothing.desktop to create a space between the menu button this post describes and the rest of my app icons on the tint2 panel bar. Then, you don't need two instances of the tint2 panel running just to separate the menu button from the other icons in the panel. And, if you click the transparent do-nothing.png icon, all that executes is /bin/true, which does nothing in this context.

^@tekhertz has a good .desktop example to use.

Joe90 · 2014-06-22 08:45:24

I took a slightly different approach to this:

1. Create/find your preferred menu icon
2. Create a new application .desktop file in /user/share/applications with the exec being: "Exec=xdotool key Super+space" and pointing it at your icon.
3. Add launcher to tint2

No fancy on/off function

pressanykey · 2014-06-22 08:58:16

I like ^ idea!

YellowPudding · 2014-10-04 02:43:06

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damo · 2014-10-04 05:24:13

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