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Yad sytem tray right click menu
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stu91


Joined: 06 Aug 2012
Posts: 101
Location: England. Dpup. Dell Inspiron 1501
PostPosted: Wed 31 Oct 2012, 11:05    Post subject:  Yad sytem tray right click menu
Subject description: Example		  
Here is an example script of a yad system tray right click menu:



Code:
#!/bin/bash
## yad simple system tray right click menu ##
## menu file example in plain text file name!command ##
#Terminal!urxvt
#Paint!mtpaint

## Application menu file ###############################################

GET_MENU="$@"

########################################################################

function START_MENU () {

## MENU items ##########################################################

MENU_ITEMS="` cat "$GET_MENU" | tr '\n' '|' | sed '$s/.$//' `"

## Defaults ############################################################

TRAY_ICON="/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/yad.png"
POPUP_TEXT="system tray menu"
PIPE_FIFO=$(mktemp -u /tmp/menutray.XXXXXXXX)

## Action on left mouse click ###########################################
  function LEFT_CLICK () {
   exec 3<> $PIPE_FIFO
    echo "quit" >&3
    rm -f $PIPE_FIFO
}
 
  export -f LEFT_CLICK
  export PIPE_FIFO

## 1 Create PIPE_FIFO file #############################################
  mkfifo $PIPE_FIFO

## 2 Attach a filedescriptor to this PIPE_FIFO #########################
  exec 3<> $PIPE_FIFO
 
## 3 Run yad and tell it to read its stdin from the file descriptor ####
GUI=$(yad --notification --kill-parent --listen \
--image="$TRAY_ICON" \
--text="$POPUP_TEXT" \
--command="bash -c LEFT_CLICK" <&3 ) &

## 4 Write menu to file descriptor to generate MENU ####################
 echo "menu:$MENU_ITEMS" >&3
}

## Check if menu file is provided ######################################
 
  if [ -z "$GET_MENU" ]; then
  echo "traymenu usage: $0 /path/to/menu/file" && exit
  else
  START_MENU
  fi

########################################################################


Tray icon and popup text can be customised in script:
TRAY_ICON=
POPUP_TEXT=

Usage: is with a separate menu file which contains menu item name ! menu item command (see below, left is name - right is command - menu order top is first)

Code:
Terminal! urxvt
Paint! mtpaint
Text Edit! geany
Media! gnome-mplayer
Home! rox /root
Sda2! rox /mnt/sda2


To run: /path/to/script /path/to/menu/file

cheers.
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don570


Joined: 10 Mar 2010
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Location: Ontario
PostPosted: Thu 01 Nov 2012, 11:51    Post subject:  
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


Joined: 06 Aug 2012
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Location: England. Dpup. Dell Inspiron 1501
PostPosted: Thu 01 Nov 2012, 13:39    Post subject:  
don570 wrote:
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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Hi don570,
Thanks for testing and feedback Cool

Im not quite sure i understand what you mean in the second lines of your post, could you give an example?

You do not need to use a menu file instead the menu could be put in the script by changing:

GET_MENU="$@"

to

GET_MENU='Terminal! urxvt
Paint! mtpaint
Text Edit! geany
Media! gnome-mplayer
Home! rox /root
Sda2! rox /mnt/sda2
'
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don570


Joined: 10 Mar 2010
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Location: Ontario
PostPosted: Thu 01 Nov 2012, 14:17    Post subject:  
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

Joined: 19 Jun 2010
Posts: 1715
Location: Burghaslach, Germany
PostPosted: Sat 10 Nov 2012, 11:01    Post subject: Yad sytem tray right click menu
Subject description: I'd like to have more of them		  
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 Cool
though most of that code is "all Greek" to me
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technosaurus


Joined: 18 May 2008
Posts: 3843
PostPosted: Wed 14 Nov 2012, 16:39    Post subject:  
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.
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