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====== Launcher ====== | ====== Launcher ====== | ||
+ | The Launcher panel plugin allows you to create application shortcuts and display them on your panel. | ||
- | The // | ||
- | ===== Usage ===== | + | ===== Add New Launchers |
+ | Besides adding launchers with the [[add-new-items|Add New Items]] window, it is also possible to drag-and-drop '' | ||
- | ==== Add New Launchers ==== | + | <note tip>If you try to drop it in between two existing launchers, Xfce will attempt to open the '' |
- | Beside adding | + | ===== Arguments ===== |
- | If you try to drop between two launchers, you'll notice it will result in opening the .desktop file with the launcher-application. To avoid this, hold the {key> | + | All launchers |
- | ==== Drag-and-drop | + | ===== Preferences |
+ | <figure " | ||
- | All launchers accept | + | ===== General ===== |
- | ===== Properties | + | The **General** tab offers options down the right hand side for manipulating the selected item. |
+ | |||
+ | ? Move up / Move down | ||
+ | ! Moves the currently selected item up or down in the list | ||
+ | ? Edit the currently selected item | ||
+ | ! Opens up an [[https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/exo/ | ||
+ | ? Delete | ||
+ | ! Deletes the item from the list. If there is only one item, the launcher | ||
+ | ? Add one or more existing items to the launcher | ||
+ | ! Opens an Add New Item window with a list of all installed applications. Additional items added are displayed under a list accessible by an arrow that appears next to the launcher. If more than one items are present in the launcher, | ||
+ | ? Add a new empty item | ||
+ | ! Opens a [[https:// | ||
+ | ? Add a new hyperlink | ||
+ | ! Opens a Create Link window to create a new hyperlink, links have to follow a [[https:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Advanced ===== | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | |||
+ | ? Disable tooltips | ||
+ | ! Doesn' | ||
+ | ? Show label instead of icon | ||
+ | ! Displays name of launcher instead of specified icon | ||
+ | ? Show last used item in panel | ||
+ | ! Only available when more than one items are present in the launcher. Shows the last used application / link as the primary item. | ||
+ | ? Arrow button position | ||
+ | ! Displays the arrow to access additional items to the left, right, top or bottom of the launcher. The **Inside Button** option displays the arrow inside the launcher and displays the list of launcher items when left-clicking on the launcher. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Expanding Variables | ||
+ | |||
+ | The command of each launcher is // | ||
+ | |||
+ | ? %F | ||
+ | ? %f | ||
+ | ? %U | ||
+ | ? %u | ||
+ | ? %i | ||
+ | ? %c | ||
+ | ? %k | ||
+ | ? %% | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Plugin Events ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | It is possible to send events to launcher plugins over the command line. One example is this: | ||
+ | |||
+ | xfce4-panel --plugin-event launcher: | ||
+ | |||
+ | This will disable the tooltips property for all launcher plugins in the panel. | ||
- | <figure " | ||
- | {{: | ||
- | </ | ||
- | ===== Style Properties ===== | ||
- | You can set a custom menu and tooltip icon size in gtk-icon-sizes with the name '' | ||
- | icon sizes are both 32px. Special widget names in this plugin are '' | ||
- | See the section [[theming|Theming]] for more information. |