Re: [rox-users] The Customize Menu

[Musus U. <mu...@ve...>]

On Thursday 01 April 2004 04:15, Ken Hayber wrote:
> On Mar 31, 2004, at 7:04 PM, catherine luedecker wrote:

> > Can you write a shell command and add that to the
> > menu.  For instance, I would like an option in my menu
> > to enqueque in xmms.
> >
> > hope I made sense
>
> That should work just fine.  Did you try it?

It's perhaps worth clarifying a few things;

First of all, we're actually talking about the 'Send To' menu - 
presumably as it's applied to the 'right-click on a file menu'.

Selecting 'Customise menu...' from that menu will open a Filer window 
showing the relevant part of the 'Send To...' menu (well, you know what 
I mean...) and show a little dialog box with the information about 
symlinking applications there.

What the OP wants, AFAICT, is to be able to have arbitrary shell 
commands there, not just symlinks to applications.

It doesn't just have to be symlinks in here, though.  When you're 
dealing with apps, etc. symlinks make most sense, but for some things 
it can be better to have, say, a shell script.   Okay, some would argue 
that the shell script should be somewhere like ~/bin, or whatever, and 
symlinked here, but it's all down to what works for the actual user 
really :)

Anyway, to add 'shell commands' to the menu:  create a little script 
file rather than symlinking an application, eg.

1. Select 'Customise menu...' to get ROX to open the appropriate Filer 
window.
2. Create a blank file (Use 'New>Blank File' from the Filer's menu) with 
an appropriate name (eg. "Enqueue")
3. Edit that file to read something like:
--8<-------------------
#!/bin/bash
exec xmms -e "$@"
--8<-------------------
4.  Make the file executable (Either using the Information dialog, or 
the Permissions one)
5. Voila :)

HTH,
Adny
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