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Pnote

Pnote is a simple notepad where you can write things that drops into your mind. - nothing new.....

What is different from other pads, is the way to use it in combination with JWM. 'Throw' your mouse-pointer into the upper-left corner of the screen, and Pnote will show up. It autohides when not in use. To get this feature working, it must be set up to as a unique tray calling 'pnote'. My extended tray configuration looks like this

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--a bit temperamental on my Dell D600 getting it to load from the desktop with a pointer (flickers about 5 times before finally getting it--sometimes worse). It loads much easier if there's a browser or something already filling the window. A hot key is far more reliable.

It might be more useful if it didn't fill the entire column. I once used a transparent vim as a writable desktop that didn't block anything out.

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Improved for the upcoming DuDE-0.2.

The reason for posting it here is not because of Pnotes brilliance, but because it shows a new way of using JWM.


Sigmund

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I hoping it can copy to clipboard.

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jpeps
The way it is set up now it can only paste from clipboard. - Simply because you quit Pnote at once mouse-pointer leaves the yellow pad.

To copy to clipboard, Pnote must be running when pasting. This could be solved by running Pnote inside a tray (like xvkbd), but the downside is
- no delay before showing app.
- All left side of screen would become activating area for Pote - very annoying (I think).


Sigmund

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I like the version within the gtkdialog window; being able to copy/paste contents is huge plus.

Edit: I substituted in the gtkdialog window version after (after pasting in the necessary code) with dude-0.2. Works great.

[technosaurus]

Kiosk mode

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Pnote is rapidly becoming indispensable in my use of the desktop (although I need the cut & paste version). One of those seeming simple yet GREAT ideas......

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jpeps,

If you put the following line of code just before the "exit" line, it will paste the pad contents to the clipboard.

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Script for changing Pnote colors:

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I wanted to put this other ptray related idea out to you in case I forget before I get home.

swallowing a gtkdialog entrybox something like (there is probably something better than gtkdialog for this??)

...tooltip="Enter a URL">ENTRY ...

defaultbrowser $ENTRY


similar for running programs instead of gexec

...tooltip="Enter a program">ENTRY

$ENTRY

(or I guess you could always swallow rxvt using its inbuilt geometry)

... I guess they could easily be pwidgets too ...

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Version 0.2
See main post

This is the improved version used in DuDE 0.2. It also includes:
- Paste content of Pnote. (thanks to seaside)
- Pnote can use different colors of background/font (thanks to jpeps)

Be aware that the integration of jwm has changed and become much simpler (see jwm-config example in main post).

The next challenge is to wrap the text ??????


Sigmund

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