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How to show MRU Most Recently Used Documents on Start Menu?
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musher0
Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 14554 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
This script will work with any window manager as long as vovchik's aemenu-pango is in the path. That I have personally tested: echinus, jwm, pekwm, icewm, wmx, and aewm (this last: obviously, since aemenu was designed for it). As to working with Thumar or other file managers, avoid the last sub-menu, marked "ROX-dirs", and the MRUD's sub-sections. The first two sub-menus are based on ~/.recently-used.xbel or ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel, the general history file for all debian/ubuntu type distros; the sub-menu for opera URLs is based on, well, ... opera(!); the images sub-menu is based on the mtpaint config/history file; and the bash part is based on the .bash_history file. I think I can safely say that 50% (?) of this MRUF script can be used with another file manager, because not all of the script relies on ROX. Since you mention those FM's, I suppose I could generalize and introduce a FileMNGR variable, except I don't know if Thumar, PCMan, Dolphin and cousins can launch a file or a program in the background, like ROX does. I simply have no experience of them. Does anybody know? Anybody can fill me in? (BTW, now that I've discovered a "format", any app that has a history could be processed in the same way. Any suggestion off the top of your mind?  )
~~~~~~~~ About using an MRUF/MRUD utility or not: it's a matter of personal habit, I suppose. As for me, I find it quite convenient: no more file digging to find what I put where, I turn to my MRUF/MRUD script. It saves me time and frustration. BFN. _________________ musher0 ~~~~~~~~~~ Je suis né pour aimer et non pas pour haïr. (Sophocle) / I was born to love and not to hate. (Sophocles) |
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Mike Walsh
 Joined: 28 Jun 2014 Posts: 5668 Location: King's Lynn, UK. |
Hi, musher0. O-kayyy. I'm in 'Chromepup' now (that's what I call it!); ROX, JWM and Openbox is the combination. I appear to have /.local/share/recently-used.xbel, though not /.recently-used.xbel. Does it matter which, as long as I have one or the other? I noticed a bit farther back in the thread (page1, stu91.....4 years ago, actually!), there is mention of a app posted on the then extant Crunchbang forum, specifically for Openbox. Did you ever give this one a try, by any chance? (I've got yours sitting in my Apps directory already, but I want to try that one on a JWM-based Pup.) I just happened to be in 'Chromepup' today (which uses Openbox), and.....I was just curious, really. I will confess, although I don't need such a thing in the normal course of events, there are occasions when I really need to do a bit of serious digging.....and I've got that many years-worth of files. Which haven't always been as well-organised as I'd like, y'know? Mike. 
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bigpup
 Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 13000 Location: S.C. USA |
musher0, Thanks for the update and improvements to MRUF-lst! Hope you posted this as a program in the "Additional Software" section of the forum. Sure seems like something to post there 
Not sure how many people are going to see it, 3 pages into a posting in "Beginners Help". _________________ The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem. When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected 
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musher0
Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 14554 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
Yeah, stu91 tipped us off about their solution at the time. I'd have to go back and check how much of their code subsists in this version!  They gave me a model and off I went!!!
It doesn't matter which XBelle your Puppy has!
But your remark this morning got my fingers itching and I ended up with
this "file-manager-agnostic" version. (Please see attached.) So now it shouldn't matter which file manager you use nor which window manager you use: you can use this script. With the warning not to use the "ROX- dirs" section if your FM is Dolphin, for ex. This version relies entirely on jemimah's xdg-open and/or on BK's default- handler (we Puppy-ists are lucky to have two launchers, aren't we!) to show the files in the lists. I also shaved 1 kb off the size of the script by using more variables. It's safer than the previous version -- this one will show a script in leafpad rather that execute it. I like it better that way: if the user wants to re-run something, then it's his responsibility -- not mine -- if it blows anything up on his computer or erases a precious file. Image management has been improved. Clicking on the name of an image shows it in the viewer not in mtpaint. Again playing it safe here, although I'll grant you that it wouldn't be as bad as re-running a remove script... 
Finally, If you don't have the old opera installed, in this version, the opera URLs won't be displayed at all. Simply a note telling you to manage your visited sites in your default browser. There you have it. Do not enjoy, do not pass GO, do not collect US$200!
TWYL. ~~~~~~~~~~ Edit: Please find the latest version a couple of post down. Thanks. _________________ musher0 ~~~~~~~~~~ Je suis né pour aimer et non pas pour haïr. (Sophocle) / I was born to love and not to hate. (Sophocles) Last edited by musher0 on Mon 05 Sep 2016, 16:58; edited 1 time in total |
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musher0
Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 14554 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
Thanks for condescending to visit this lowly "Beginners" thread!!! 
In any case, I cut the pear in half, I half-followed your advice: there is now an advertisement of this thread and of my new script in the "additional software" section. And an explanation, there, of why it's staying here, in this thread. Sorry for any ruffled feathers. BFN. _________________ musher0 ~~~~~~~~~~ Je suis né pour aimer et non pas pour haïr. (Sophocle) / I was born to love and not to hate. (Sophocles) |
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Mike Walsh
Joined: 28 Jun 2014 Posts: 5668 Location: King's Lynn, UK. |
Hiya, musher0. Hey, thanks for having a 'play-around' with it! I'll d'l the new version, then spend some time experimenting with all my Pups. I'll let ya know how I get on with it. (Might be a few days, though..!)
No worries about Dolphin; KDE & Plasma, great fun though they are, are too darn 'heavy' for my liking... Cheers. Mike.
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musher0
Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 14554 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
Hello, all. Very latest version! Following Mike W.'s idea, I added a choice of file managers. I tested rox (Nohhh... Really?) and Midnight Commander (special script
included for mc, BTW). Now all that's left for you to do, Mike Walsh, is to test this script with
your thunar Viking and other file managers! And to tell us if they work?!
If they don't, perhaps suggest a couple of hints to make them work with this script!? I also added: -- a MRUF / MRUD section for Geany and -- one for the "GTK-Bookmarks" (if you have any of those, of course). Finally, there are no warning messages before deleting the various history files or sections, BUT back-ups are made. (With a double back-up, actually, for when you do it the 2nd time.) If the scare-a-dee cats among you need a warning message, I'll write one, but at this time I feel double back-ups are sufficient protection. Feedback welcome. TWYL.
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musher0
Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 14554 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
Hello all. Here is version 9: -- Compacted / rationalized the bash code down to 12 K from 15k, to 180 lines from 300 lines. No functionality lost, either; that's the beautiful part! -- Detection of installed file managers rather than simple choice, as previously. Only your installed FM's will show in the menu, although the original choice of six is still there. The code for it is:
splitting pattern. I ran successful tests using this script with pcmanfm and xfe, in addiion to the previous one with Midnight Commander. I was unable to do a full install of Dolphin, but I saw enough of it to validate its calling syntax in this script. I didn't attempt anything with Thunar after my failed Dolphin experiment. Again, please see above item concerning how you can "detect" and call other FM's from this script. If your FM is not listed above and you need help, ask me: it's almost easy! A Midnight Commander wrapper is included (if you need it), because M.C. cannot be launched directly from a menu such as this. -- Now included are fonts OpenSans-Light (used to display the menu) and Monaco (used by less to show the description and the bash history). You can change them later, but you now have something decent as a starter. This is why the archive has grown in size, BTW. -- The international strings section is now stored separately in /usr/doc/MRUF-lst, should a native speaker wish to complete them for his / her language. The only localizations in the script now are the ones in English and in French. -- Finally -- please forgive me for not mentioning it before, it had escaped me -- you will need the real less (any version from v. 450 up) as a dependency to view the description and the bash history. Less version 481 (the latest as of this writing) is here. Please leave below any constructive questions or comments that you would have. TWYL. ~~~~~ Edit, afternoon of Sept. 6 2016: -- Erratum -- Hello all. Please copy the bash code below, paste it in /usr/local/bin as file < erratum-MRUF.sh >, make executable and run. This will correct lines 150 and 152 of the script. Applying this erratum will make the bash history visible again and not just flash. My sincere apologies. musher0
_________________ musher0 ~~~~~~~~~~ Je suis né pour aimer et non pas pour haïr. (Sophocle) / I was born to love and not to hate. (Sophocles) Last edited by musher0 on Tue 06 Sep 2016, 16:08; edited 1 time in total |
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Mike Walsh
Joined: 28 Jun 2014 Posts: 5668 Location: King's Lynn, UK. |
Hiya, musher0. Have tried v.8 (can't keep up with ya!) in Tahrpup, X-Slacko, and Chromepup. WM's covered are JWM, Openbox and XFCE. File managers covered are ROX and Thunar. I'm pleased to report it appears to work flawlessly.....and reminds me of things I may have done days before (some of my Pups get more use than others!) Yeah. Works nicely. You can give yourself a pat on the back from me, old son! Spot-on. Does everything I could want from it.....
Mike.
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musher0
Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 14554 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
Many thanks for the compliment, Mike. I'm glad it's working for you, and helping you jog your memory a bit!
Just a reminder: If you install version 0.9 (two posts up), don't forget to run the erratum file at the bottom of the post as well. I was the typical "absent-minded professor" on that one! Have a great day! 
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Puppus Dogfellow
 Joined: 07 Jan 2013 Posts: 1633 Location: nyc |
cool you're still developing this, musher. seems to work well in tahr64, can't get it to run in a rather flaky xenpup install, and can't read the menus for beans. any way to ditch the effects and colors and such? it starts off with an independant gtk theme, but loses this when you try to change it from its menu? was that supposed to happen? anyway, my eyes are going and i found it hard to read, the green especially. overall though, looks great (feature wise. from what i can see.)
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musher0
Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 14554 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
Hi Puppys Dogfellow. Glad you like it! Thanks again for the "rd" icon you composed for this script a while back. (Official icon for this script!)
Yeah, still developing it. There were many bugs in the older versions, and that "bugged" me.
As to your question, I suppose I could write an alternative plain version without any color, like for the traditional aemenu. Also I have a real color chooser sub-menu on another script that I could attempt to import/adapt to this one. But I've been upgrading this MRUF script non-stop for like a week +/- , so I'm taking a breather for a couple of days! In the meantime, have you tried any item of the "Dress-up" menu? One changes the colors from dark to light and vice versa. The other one calls the "change GTK theme" utility. Maybe if you choose a different GTK theme the contrast will make the green entries in the menu more readable? A more white-ish or on the contrary more black-ish GTK theme, perhaps? Just a thought. TWYL. _________________ musher0 ~~~~~~~~~~ Je suis né pour aimer et non pas pour haïr. (Sophocle) / I was born to love and not to hate. (Sophocles) |
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Puppus Dogfellow
Joined: 07 Jan 2013 Posts: 1633 Location: nyc |
my themes are readable elsewhere (the ones in question anyway), and i didn't want to swap them out for the one app, but i found some of my older themes worked okay and are livable, so--all the more reason for you to take a break from this for a bit. glad you like the icon enough to use it--a little large for my tastes, but that's fixable. (you got a script to shrink stuff to 20 pixels along its longest axis and maybe another to rotate all the images in a folder 333 degrees? (just thought i'd ask while i've got your attention...i'm pretty sure they've actually been posted before)). problematic xenial701 install i mentioned froze while i was posting so i'm scrapping it. still have one 32 bit install going i can test with. anyway, thanks for this. |
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musher0
Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 14554 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
Hi, Puppus Dogfellow and all. @Puppus: I believe this version 0.9.1 will solve your reading contrast issue. (Please see screen capture.) Aside from that, I tried to improve the readability of the code by flagging more clearly the beginning and end of each section. I also redid the digging routine for the "xbel" file; seems to produce more really recent results now (I paid closer attention to the time the file was "modified" in the routine). Finally, I touched-up the description panel. But essentially I introduced no new feature. ~~~~~~~~~ Reading vovchik's "Pango Mark-up" Reference Sheet (which is in PDF) to accommodate Puppus' request (which I was glad to do, BTW; his request adds something useful), I noticed that Evince has a history file. Do you guys think it would be useful to have a "PDF history" section in this menu? Furthermore, if you people know of any other interesting application that generates a worthy history file, and you would like it included in this MRUF menu, please let me know? TIA. ~~~~~~~~~ Constructive feedback always welcome. TWYL
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Mike Walsh
Joined: 28 Jun 2014 Posts: 5668 Location: King's Lynn, UK. |
Hi, musher0. Now, then; just out of curiosity, where in your scripts are the fonts located? I'm just wondering if it's possible to alter the font in use by the app. I've got a rather swoosh TTF font (TrSah Dungeon TTF) that I wouldn't mind trying to use with it. In fact it's not that dissimilar to the one you've used in your most recent version (v.0.91? I'm getting lost, mate..! )
See below for example. Mike.
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