Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

mechanic · Joined: 12 Apr 2009 Posts: 29

PupTray is a way to quickly launch your favorite programs. It is written in BaCon which you can find here:

http://www.basic-converter.org/

PupTray uses a config file that you set up to quickly run your favorite programs. Source is included and a readme file to get up and running fast.

This was written in Puppy Lucid 5.01 but should work for most versions of Puppy Linux. No dependencies except GTK+.

Thanks to vovchik for helping me get this up and running!

Have fun!

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Ukraine

Dear Puppians,

mechanic has done a really nice job here, and the program is genuinely useful and a breeze to configure. Please try it out.

With kind regards,
vovchik

disciple · Posted: Sun 31 Oct 2010, 07:32 Post subject:

What makes it more useful than JWM tray buttons? You can't drag and drop programs into it, can you? Does it automatically find icons or something?

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sun 31 Oct 2010, 07:34 Post subject:

didn't work on 2.14X

disciple

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Ukraine

Dear ttuuxxx and disciple,

I think this binary will work in older puppies. I compiled it in 3.01...

With kind regards,
vovchik

PS.

mechanic · Joined: 12 Apr 2009 Posts: 29

Mobeus · Joined: 26 Aug 2010 Posts: 94

I really like it! The only glitch is I'm running 5.1 with icewm and I had to modify the startup script to get it to show in the tray.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Mon 01 Nov 2010, 01:48 Post subject:

Here's one I compiled for 2.14X plus I updated the sources to work better with puppy
the default was gedit for the text editor and firefox for the browser
Puppy uses defaultbrowser & defaulttexteditor
now works out of the box Smile

, Had to compile Bash 4.1 to get it working and then installed the bash beacon script and opened mrrxvt and typed bash bacon -j puptray.bac

Below is the pet, plus bash with the bacon script included (only needed for compiling not running Ptray )and a locales pet for bash
Thanks ttuuxxx Smile

ttuuxxx · Posted: Mon 01 Nov 2010, 03:46 Post subject:

For a starter example on 2.14X you could use

Calculator=gcalctool
Word Processor=abiword
Text Editor=defaulttexteditor
Media Player=defaultmediaplayer
Audio Player=defaultaudioplayer
+++

just copy it over the default text and save it\
ttuuxxx

mechanic · Joined: 12 Apr 2009 Posts: 29

Mobeus wrote:

The only way to improve it would be to have icons associated with the menu entries. Possible?

Here is version 0.2. I added icons to the menu items and now PupTray attempts to find the icon for the defaultxxx... executable names.

Have fun!

mechanic · Joined: 12 Apr 2009 Posts: 29

ttuuxxx · Posted: Tue 02 Nov 2010, 02:09 Post subject:

There was an error, line 291
gdk = gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file(icon$, NUL)
should be
gdk = gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file(icon$, NULL) <--- two "L's"
Plus its still using gedit and Firefox when it should be defaulttexteditor and defaultbrowser.
Fixed below
ttuuxxx

mechanic · Joined: 12 Apr 2009 Posts: 29

ttuuxxx

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