Menu Pipes in IceWM

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Similar to what I've posted for Fluxbox a Menu Pipe can easily be done in IceWM.

Example for a static menu category:

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menu "Places (Rox Bookmarks)" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/drive48.png {
prog "/" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/"
prog "/etc" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/etc"
prog "/etc/xdg" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/etc/xdg"
prog "/mnt" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/mnt"
prog "/root" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/root"
prog "/root/.config" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/root/.config"
prog "/root/.fluxbox" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/root/.fluxbox"
prog "/root/.icewm" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/root/.icewm"
prog "/root/.jwm" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/root/.jwm"
prog "/root/.lazy528" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/root/.lazy528"
prog "/root/.my-sfs-scripts" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/root/.my-sfs-scripts"
prog "/root/.packages" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/root/.packages"
prog "/root/.wbarstuff" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/root/.wbarstuff"
prog "/tmp" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/tmp"
prog "/usr" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/usr"
prog "/usr/bin" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/usr/bin"
prog "/usr/lib" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/usr/lib"
prog "/usr/local" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/usr/local"
prog "/usr/local/apps" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/usr/local/apps"
prog "/usr/local/bin" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/usr/local/bin"
prog "/usr/local/lib/X11" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/usr/local/lib/X11"
prog "/usr/sbin" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/usr/sbin"
prog "/usr/sbin/ceelab" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/usr/sbin/ceelab"
prog "/usr/share" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/usr/share"
prog "/usr/share/applications" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/usr/share/applications"
prog "/usr/share/audio" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/usr/share/audio"
prog "/usr/share/audio-themes" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/usr/share/audio-themes"
prog "/usr/share/backgrounds" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/usr/share/backgrounds"
prog "/usr/share/desktop-directories" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/usr/share/desktop-directories"
prog "/usr/share/doc" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/usr/share/doc"
prog "/usr/share/icons" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/usr/share/icons"
prog "/usr/share/pixmaps" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/usr/share/pixmaps"
prog "/usr/X11R7/bin" /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/folder48.png rox "/usr/X11R7/bin"
}

Example for code to add to the file /etc/xdg/templates/_root_.icewm_menu:

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include /root/.places_icewm_submenu

To have a pipe -let's say for some scripts in /mnt/sda1/my-scripts- one just would need to write a little script that reads the directory /mnt/sda1/my-scripts and would echo its input (output of reading) in a modified form like this:

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prog "Entry-Title-here" Path-and-or-Icon-Name-Here Path-and-Script-here

That's it.

I'm using Menu Pipes heavily in my LazY Puppy builds, but almost used in Openbox, which uses real Menu Pipes, that are updated immediately when opening the Menu.

Currently I'm creating such feature for JWM in L.A.S.S.I.E., but statically like this one here, that needs to be updated manually. To have a static Menu Pipe to be updated manually is the way I do prefer now, since there is a lot of Scripts, RoxApps and PortableApps for Linux and Wine included in my external Application directories, so the real Openbox Menu Pipes do take sometimes 1 or 2 seconds to give access to the menu category.

Since the content of these directories doesn't change very often, it's not really needed to update those Menu Pipes each time when opening the Menu. That's why I prefer the "static-pipes" now.

I have already converted my Openbox Menu Pipes for the use in JWM and Fluxbox. Now I'm doing this for IceWM.

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[RSH]

I have already converted my Openbox Menu Pipes for the use in JWM and Fluxbox. Now I'm doing this for IceWM.

Done!

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