Re: [rox-devel] Rox-Filer feature requests

[Jonatan L. <th...@te...>]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:57:55 -0500
Kick The Donkey <ch...@ep...> wrote:

> > * .DirOptions, or some other way to have specific options about how
> > a specific directory should be shown. For example, you could have a
> > ~/AppLinks where you build "menus" of applications, which you
> > symlink from the /usr/local/apps or ~/Apps, and then have a file
> > named.DirOptions in ~/AppLinks/ telling rox that it should show it
> > with big icons and without the little symlink-indicator on the
> > icons...
> 
> Simpliar to something I have wanted.  I've often thought it would be
> nice to have defineable context menu options on AppDirs.  For
> instance, I could right click on the AppDir, and have an option to
> 'launch in Debug mode'.  Or 'run as root'.  These options could be
> defined in a .DirOptions like file.

Yes, that would be wonderful! I've often wanted that too.

Regarding "run as root", I've tried several available sudo/su for X,
like xsudo, gnomesu, or whatever... I haven't got anyone to work so I
wrote a little hack which just opens a xterm -e su -c "cmd args", this
works fine but if I close the xterm after it has opened the program
(rox, for example) then the program dies too... Is this becouse the
program looses it's controlling tty? (stdout and stderr goes to this
xterm when I do this, but I really would want it to go to my usual
stdout and stderr, which ROX-Session handles...)

> > BUGS?:
> > * sometimes the filer doesn't handle my keyboard shortcuts. Then i
> > have to right-click and close the menu again, then it works...
> 
> Are you sure you don't have another program open that is capturing
> your keypress events?

I can't see what that should be... It works after I've opened the popup
menu and closed it again. It seems like Rox didn't "read in" the
shortcuts.

/Jonatan
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