Re: [sshmenu] Can't install sshmenu

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

I did look at one Gnome3 extension that offered a drop-down menu for SSH
connections (and other connections).  I think it might have been this
one:

  https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/45/connection-manager/

The comments on that page suggest it stopped working a while a go and
might be abandoned, but the code might be a useful starting point.

If I understand your text selection issue correctly, this is what works
for me:

 1. Highlight text in gnome-terminal (or other app) using the mouse
 2. Use middle click to paste (possibly in another window)

On my desktop system, the middle click is achieved but pressing down on
the scroll wheel.

On other systems, such as some laptops, which have a left and a right
button, you can configure an X setting to emulate the middle button by
pressing left and right simultaneously.

On my HP laptop the touch pad has no buttons but can be clicked.  I have
customised the X settings to define tap regions to trigger left, right
and middle clicks.

Grant

On Wed, 2015-11-18 at 12:58 -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Is that applets like in screenlets? Those things are always so buggy.
> I hate Unity and Gnome3's not really to my liking though I should play
> with it more. I like compiz and all the whiz bangy flying windows and
> transparencies... Never tried XFCE.
> 
> Do you know of anything else that will allow you to manage many
> terminals in an organized fashion? As a sysadmin of sorts with often
> lots of machine to manage I like having them on a menu so I can
> arrange and categorize them so I can find machines quickly.
> 
> I'm not much of a Ruby guy but I grew up in a compiler language lab so
> languages are sorta my thing. I haven't done any panel extensions but
> I have done some Javascript. If you could point me to some examples
> perhaps I could port this. Would you suggest I go to Gnome3 and target
> that?
> 
> Oh and another thing, if you might happen to know - do you know of any
> way to change gnome-terminal such that merely selecting text makes it
> so that you can paste it into another application? I mean I don't like
> having to right click and select copy nor do I like to do Ctrl-Shift-C
> all the time. I want it to be just put in the cutbuffer as soon as
> text selection stops.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> On 11/18/2015 12:00 PM, Grant McLean wrote:
> 
> > Sorry, SSHMenu is pretty much abandonware at this point.
> > 
> > The main problem with trying to run SSHMenu on a modern desktop is that
> > neither Unity nor Gnome3 really support applets any more.  For a while I
> > was running XFCE and managed to run the standalone version of SSHMenu in
> > the panel using the capture applet.  I have since moved to Gnome3 -
> > which I quite like, but the panel extensions are all Javascript-based so
> > the existing SSHMenu Ruby code isn't compatible.
> > 
> > You may be able to make the existing code work in standalone mode, but
> > you'd need to check out the code from the repo (rather than install from
> > OS packages) and probably tweak a few things to work with the latest
> > Ruby-GTK libraries.
> > 
> > Regards
> > Grant
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2015-11-18 at 10:56 -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> > > I'm trying to install sshmenu-gnome (or sshmenu for that matter) and
> > > I'm hitting unmet dependencies:
> > >         Andromeda:sudo apt-get install sshmenu-gnome
> > >         Reading package lists... Done
> > >         Building dependency tree       
> > >         Reading state information... Done
> > >         Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you
> > >         have
> > >         requested an impossible situation or if you are using the
> > >         unstable
> > >         distribution that some required packages have not yet been
> > >         created
> > >         or been moved out of Incoming.
> > >         The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> > >         
> > >         The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > >          sshmenu-gnome : Depends: sshmenu but it is not going to be
> > >         installed
> > >                          Depends: libgnome2-ruby but it is not
> > >         installable
> > >                          Depends: libpanel-applet2-ruby but it is not
> > >         installable
> > >                          Depends: libgconf2-ruby but it is not
> > >         installable
> > >         E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> > >         Andromeda:
> > > I'm on Ubuntu 14.10. Is there anyway to get this working?
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