Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[stu91]

Here is an example script of a yad system tray right click menu:

[don570]

It worked when I tried it in Precise.

It would be more useful if running the terminal command
wasn't necessary each time the menu file was changed.

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[stu91]

[don570]

I was referring to a menu editor. (A couple already exist for Puppy)


So the user filled in fields rather than create a file.
Geany can open a document for example ---> so two fields
would be needed for each app

and maybe a button to click so previous tray icons quit.

Probably too much work.

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[L18L]

Hi stu9x

I have have been playing with your script

TRAY_ICON="/usr/share/doc/puppylogo48.png"
POPUP_TEXT="one of my special mini menus "


Using
GET_MENU='Terminal! urxvt
Paint! mtpaint
'
MENU_ITEMS= has to be changed to
MENU_ITEMS="` echo "$GET_MENU" | tr '\n' '|' | sed '$s/.$//' `"

Having different TRAY_ICON and POPUP_TEXT for each menu now
Launched by Startup in precise

Very cool
though most of that code is "all Greek" to me

[technosaurus]

the way I got around all of the complexity in sit (simple icon tray) was to use user defined commands for the left and right click menus ... these can be simulated in gtkdialog by setting window-placement="2" in the <window> tag (I forget what it is in yad, but most dialog apps including Xdialog have similar near mouse window positioning abilities)
Also in sit all tooltips and icons get automagically refreshed if the image or tooltip file is changed and since the user defines the click actions, those can be changed on the fly too. so changing behavior is as simple as copying one icon over another icon, echoing to a tooltip text file or modifying the right/left-click action script/function/executable. The number of icons is unlimited, so AFAIK sit covers 99% of needs for creating tray apps and is only ~5kb

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76431

There are also a lot of tips scattered throughout the thread for generating simple yet useful svg images within scripts as well as some examples for parsing data in a way that is useful for tray apps.

[Argolance]

Bonjour,
This Yad sytem tray right click menu is great and very useful.
Thanks!

I would like to know if it is possible to get small icons at the head of the entries of this right click menu? And if yes, how?
I succeeded in making such a menu using gtkdialog and by setting window-placement="2" in the <window> tag but:

- the bottom of the menu is hidden behind the JWM task bar.
- the icon is in the quick launch part of the JWM task bar

Cordialement.

[mikeb]

oops I wish I could read but updating the menu is just a case of echoing to the pipe on >3 by whatever convenient means

mike

[Argolance]

[mikeb]

Sorry to confuse It was more a general reply to yad usage plus I messed up my post and quickly edited it... hence the 'oops'

[Argolance]

OK, thanks!