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rox/jwm dragging files/folders to other desktops
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rufwoof
 Joined: 24 Feb 2014 Posts: 3719 |
Rox and jwm ... you can drag a window title across desktops (holding alt whilst dragging a window title to a screen edge will flip to that desktop quicker), however you can't drag a icon/folder across desktops. Unless that is  ....
I don't use multiple desktops, instead I just use multiple pinboards and flip between them using rox -p <pinboardname> Create a rox app folder and in that folder create a file called AppRun with content something like
change that first line to where you store your pinboards. Make the file executable and in that same rox app directory drop in a icon (.png or whatever) for that rox app, renaming the file to .DirIcon Now in rox whenever you run that rox app (click on the icon), it will flip to that pinboard. If however you drag a file or folder onto that icon in rox then it will create a pinboard entry for that file/folder on the pinboard (the above is hard coded to drop the icon in at X=554 and Y=128). The pinboard from where that file/folder came will still also have a icon for that dragged/dropped file/folder, i.e. its a form of copy rather than move. If you wanted it to be more of a move type action then you'd add additional SOAP code into AppRun ... something like
which as coded to remove from my office.pb pinboard, assuming that is the pinboard from where the icon being moved came from. I have a rox panel and with my different pinboard rox apps (AppDirs similar to the above) have been included (dragged/dropped onto the rox panel). So when I'm on one pinboard (desktop) and want to drag a file or folder to another pinboard (desktop), I just drag it to the rox panel icon for the target desktop and drop it there, and it switches to that desktop (pinboard) with the dropped icon showing there. |
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musher0
Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 14780 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
Hi rufwoof. Thanks for your tips and your scripts. Most appreciated. However, there are a couple of other approaches to this, if I may. You could use a different WM! That I know of, echinus, pekwm, icewm (probably others) all have simple config files where you can associate an app with a desk. So app A will launch in desk Y. As to the desktop icons, the user can create as many "Pinboards" (aka "PuppyPins") in ~/Choices/ROX-Filer as (s)he likes, repeating some icons or not in each. To change pinboards, the one-liner is
PinBoard2, and on PinBoard2, you do the reverse. To the above one-liner, add
you can change desk and desktop at the same time. Finally, the user also has the possibility of using a ROX-panel (see below).
In the above, icons of smallish transparent png images linking to themselves (it sounds complicated but it is not) are used as separators between the program icons, to make things clearer to the eye. An empty conky can also help as separator at top, middle and bottom (if you need such separators.) This panel is controlled by the following on-off switch:
"themed" icons in succession (e.g. one panel for games, one for serious work and one for multimedia/graphics), and again link the panels with a particular desktop. You have an icon of this change script on every desk, and you click on it as you need to. I hope the above helps users better understand how to take advantage of the ROX desktop. Best regards.
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