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johnywhy · Joined: 20 Aug 2011 Posts: 689

hi

is there a way to display my most recently used files on my Puppy menu?

thanks

Béèm · Posted: Sun 21 Aug 2011, 15:29 Post subject:

MRU is Many Regrets Unable Wink

Blow it all away.

It has been addressed before and I never saw a solution.
Altho theoretically something can be developed for this.
A tip: there is a .recently-used.xbel file in /root.
Most programs have that function in the file menu and I think they use that file.

musher0 · Posted: Thu 11 Oct 2012, 07:33 Post subject:

Edit, 2016-09-23, 8:43 EDT:
To anyone interested in a MRUF/MRUD script and new to this thread:
------ it is now at version 0.9.5.4 and can be found here. ------
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Hello.

Béèm answered johnwhy's question with his usual philosophical wisdom Smile

.

So here's my attempt, in view that Puppy does not seem to have a MRU utility per se.

(béèm, if you're reading this from where you are, the info provided by ~/.recently-used was really too skimpy for me.)

puppyluvr · Posted: Thu 11 Oct 2012, 07:45 Post subject:

Hello,
User Warmock is working on Navig8or here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=66008
If one could graphically integrate something like musher0`s above script into it,
you would have a menu that was very windoze like.. (eww LOL)

johnywhy · Joined: 20 Aug 2011 Posts: 689

This is very cool, really great!

tho in my OP i was actually looking for most recently opened files, not programs. Yes I know programs are files, but I mean files which are not programs.

stu91 · Posted: Thu 11 Oct 2012, 08:40 Post subject:

You can with Openbox windows manager yes - via a pipe menu.

This script was posted on crunchbang forum by user johnraff but it works on Puppy ok.

johnywhy · Joined: 20 Aug 2011 Posts: 689

Thanks.

I guess this is totally dependent on which window manager you're using, right?

stu91 · Posted: Thu 11 Oct 2012, 09:03 Post subject:

musher0 · Posted: Thu 11 Oct 2012, 10:05 Post subject:

musher0 · Posted: Thu 11 Oct 2012, 10:10 Post subject:

@stu91. Thanks for the reference.
I might try to adapt that little robot on pekwm.

BFN.

musher0 · Posted: Thu 11 Oct 2012, 10:13 Post subject:

musher0 · Posted: Thu 11 Oct 2012, 10:14 Post subject:

musher0 · Posted: Sun 04 Nov 2012, 03:37 Post subject:

Hi, people.

Here is a cleaner and more limited MRUD script, inspired by a pipemenu for openbox. Thanks to stu91 for the tip. It's more limited in the sense that it detects only documents, not scripts or programs.

This one uses BK's defaultlauncher, rather than xdg-open or the ROX mime-types, to relaunch the documents. I added a couple of filetypes to the launcher, so that odt and gnumeric files are recognized.

It contains an attempt at internationalization and some UTF-8 conversions.

It has its own *.desktop file, so a menu entry should appear under "Documents" in any wm, even if this initial release is based on aemenu.

Created on lupu 5.25 retro. I'm sort of counting on you people to tell me on which other puppies it works.

It is a 0.1 version, in other words, "beta". Any constructive comment or improvement suggestion is welcome.

Screen capture is here: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=662352#662352

musher0 · Posted: Sun 17 Nov 2013, 03:01 Post subject: Subject description: Version 03

Hello.

Please find attached v. 03. Basically, the changes concern line 14:

musher0 · Posted: Sat 24 May 2014, 22:08 Post subject:

Hello, all.

Please find attached my most recent take on this.
Like the versions above, it requires aemenu.

Enjoy!

musher0