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paul.neocube

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From: United States

Registered: 2022-11-25

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Re: is there a plugin to make a drop-down menu?

Amazon Apps    ! "/home/neocube/.webcatalog/Amazon Apps/Amazon Apps" |\

The quotes might be throwing it off (because its already enclosed in quotes). See if one of these versions will work:

Amazon Apps    ! '/home/neocube/.webcatalog/Amazon Apps/Amazon Apps' |\

...or:

Amazon Apps    ! /home/neocube/.webcatalog/Amazon\ Apps/Amazon\ Apps |\

I got what you're saying, and your second version worked. But what I did was edit the apps that had a space and just replaced it with a "-" instead so I did not need the backwards slash. Thanks for your help.

herbie643

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Registered: 2013-04-05

Posts: 138

Re: is there a plugin to make a drop-down menu?

How about
xfce4-terminal --drop-down

Skaperen

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From: right by Jesus, our Saviour

Registered: 2013-06-15

Posts: 862

Re: is there a plugin to make a drop-down menu?

How about
xfce4-terminal --drop-down

what does that do?  got a screenshot?

i want to be able to configure each menu item, what it's label/name/image is, and what it runs (command and arguments) when clicked.  can you show how that's done with your suggestion?

herbie643

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Registered: 2013-04-05

Posts: 138

Re: is there a plugin to make a drop-down menu?

It does a dropdown terminal like quake,  when click off of it it will appear as an icon in notification area on the panel.

I created a shortcut for the F3 key .

Last edited by herbie643 (2022-12-04 03:31:33)

mint4all

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From: off the map

Registered: 2018-08-21

Posts: 276

Re: is there a plugin to make a drop-down menu?

How about
xfce4-terminal --drop-down

what does that do?  got a screenshot?

i want to be able to configure each menu item, what it's label/name/image is, and what it runs (command and arguments) when clicked.  can you show how that's done with your suggestion?

You might want to look over "dialog" (v 1.3-20190808) ... It is a VERY flexible, text-based tool that adds dialog features to shell scripts. The package comes with a decent collection of examples (~80 or so) of what can be done with it.

What is interesting is the fact that it provides many non-gui features that are on par, imho, with "yad" and exceed those provided by "zenity" which both are GUI-/GTK-based. Just a constructive thought ...

Cheers, m4a

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