Re: [sshmenu] multiple sshmenu applets?

[Grant M. <gr...@mc...>]

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 07:44 +1100, Jeff Ewing wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is it possible to configure multiple applets in the panel with different
> .sshmenu configuration files?

I'm not aware of a mechanism for passing arguments to applets, or any
other mechanism which could be used to tell each SSHMenu instance which
config file to use.

One quick-and-dirty way to get multiple copies of SSHMenu in the panel
is to use the GNOME Swallower Meta Applet (the gnome-swallow-applet
package on Debian/Ubuntu).  This allows you to 'swallow' any standalone
menu into the panel so you could use it to invoke the sshmenu-gnome
program with whatever command-line arguments you need.

> Now I have one applet, and two standalone sshmenu windows invoked with 
> the command line --config-file. If I cant easily put three sshmenu
> applets in my panel, I wanted to arrange these  (like the rest of 
> my desktop) with devilspie. However, both of my standalone
> sshmenu windows have the same application names and window names.
>
> Is there any way I can pass a --title (or app name|class) to differentiate 
> my standalone sshmenu windows?

It's possible that you'll have the same issue with the swallower applet,
however you could use a custom wrapper script to change the window
title.

The default wrapper script looks like this:

  #!/usr/bin/ruby -W2

  require 'gnome-sshmenu'

  app = GnomeSSHMenu::Factory.make_app()

  app.run

You could make your one (or more) of your own along these lines:

  #!/usr/bin/ruby -W2

  require 'gnome-sshmenu'

  win = Gtk::Window.new( Gtk::Window::TOPLEVEL )
  win.title = 'xyzzy'

  app = GnomeSSHMenu::Factory.make_app(:window => win)

  app.run

You could also try something like: 

  win.role = 'sshmenu1' 

to give devilspie something else to match on.

Cheers
Grant