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I have no time ATM to spend with this, just wanted to take an initial look. Saved it, made it executable, ran into an error:

Jerry3904 wrote:I have no time ATM to spend with this, just wanted to take an initial look. Saved it, made it executable, ran into an error:

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jb@UTRA:~/MX $ ./yop_menu
rm: cannot remove ‘/home/jb/.pipe.tmp’: No such file or directory

please keep the filename as:


/home/demo/traymenu


maybe I should make that more obvious. Thanks though!

I refined the script a little, thanks!

please also note I made a note in the "long form" above, saying that

rm: cannot remove ‘/home/jb/.pipe.tmp’: No such file or directory

can be safely ignored, while there is no redirect to dev null of this err msg.


overall, netbook users like myself have a real handy tool at heir hands with this, else I would not waste my time on such stuff. improvements welcome!

I have no more time now, but should you replace "demo" with "$USER"?

worth checking out.

~ already failed with yad ... so ...

Jerry3904 wrote:I have no more time now, but should you replace "demo" with "$USER"?

OK, I updated to ver. 2.4 using $HOME

advantages:
- just works auto-started, unlike other menues I could mention
- saves repeated entry of root password for call of thunar/dolphin etc.
- fast even on netbooks, everything is kept in ONE SINGLE FILE named /home/demo/traymenu
- works in 3 DTE : KDE, LXDE, XFCE plus probably others
- appfinder seems unlikely to ever find all relevant apps in most distros, so the only solution is a fully manual menu

possible traps:

- with openbox, sudo dolphin may not work, use plasma DT
- autostart in KDE: check "symlink" else a file copy will used, which is usually not desirable