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sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2768 Location: UK

musher0 · Posted: Mon 11 Sep 2017, 06:47 Post subject:

Hi scotman.

Does it come with a Coke or a Ginger Ale? Laughing

I tried it, and nah... it can't replace your WM. I can't find any use for it.
(That's just my opinion, of course.)

Although the author Tomaz Something, of Slax fame, is a top developer, he
must've woken up on the wrong side of the bed that day!!!

BFN.

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2768 Location: UK

Xlunch could be customised to be a simple, lightweight, searchable frontend for not only Linux apps, but for anything..

I am thinking of making xlunch into a fancy ROM loader for Puppy Arcade.
.. Just do 'for each ROM, make a .desktop file or text entry', put them/it in
a single dir, update xlunch to look in that dir, and viola.

In this way, xlunch could probably also be used as a very fast alternative to Kodi ..
Get a load of local media, videos, music etc, make .desktop files of them,
make xlunch look for those files (not only in /usr/share/applicatins) and ur done..

OR you *could* even write a script to put online streams/torrents into .desktop files,
each one loading the stream through vlc, mpv, (even PeerFlix) etc ...
Then xlunch can list the movies, streams, torrents etc...
You click it, it and the Exec= from te desktop file would play the stream..

Any of these uses would make xlunch the lightest, fastest Kodi alternative,
or Emulation ROM loading frontend there is!

Also, xlunch could serve as a really lightweight alternative to Spotlight,
with the right settings, scripts, hacks and stuff..

Just some ideas on what *could* be done with xlunch..

musher0 · Posted: Fri 15 Sep 2017, 16:41 Post subject:

Hi sc0ttman.

Maybe you can use this for a few things. But generalized? No.

For practical reasons, this concept is absurd if anyone is suggesting XLunch
can replace a window manager -- or a windows manager menu. (hehe)

You have about 250 items as *desktop entries,
plus
How many Internet TV channels?
How many Internet radio stations?
How many executables in /usr/bin?
and in the other "bin" directories.

Where will you put all the little squares on your screen? It just isn't practical.
Which is why I don't see XLunch as a general solution for managing your
box. You'll still need something more fine-tuned.

BFN.

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2768 Location: UK

Fork of Xlunch, for Puppy Linux
(a work-in-progress)

https://gitlab.com/sc0ttj/xlunch

Install (requires devx installed):

musher0 · Posted: Fri 31 Aug 2018, 22:29 Post subject:

Speaking for myself: it's still an awful concept for anyone who likes to look
at inspiring photographs -- and a clean desktop!

rockedge · Posted: Fri 31 Aug 2018, 22:36 Post subject:

I have been using the xlunch fork with relatively good success...but not to replace the Rox pin board or menu system...but more of a layer on top using the same background as the jwm background and the use of all the available .desktop apps in one menu that can be sorted or isolated quickly via some text input. I am still experimenting with xlunch and looking for it's true nitch..at the moment it gets started via a desktop link/icon and gets used occasionally......xlunch is not handling the .svg icons very well

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2768 Location: UK

Yeah I think, aside from a custom frontend for Media Player, Emulation Menus (etc), the best use for xlunch is as a 'spotlight' clone ... A popup menu that is loaded by a hotkey like Ctrl+SPACE, pops up, lets you run 1 command, and disappears again... That is the `xlunchr --menu` option ...

rockedge, If you use `xlunchr --config`, then `xlunchr --menu` (or `xlunchr --desktop`) do you not get ALL icons working? (Like in my screenshot?)

fredx181 · Joined: 11 Dec 2013 Posts: 4202 Location: holland

Decided to move Xlunch .pet packages topic to it's own thread because it doesn't really fit with sc0ttman's project.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=114208

Fred

rockedge · Posted: Sat 01 Sep 2018, 13:09 Post subject:

sc0ttman Thanks for the tips.
I pulled the latest xlunch-master and built it. Running on Bionic 18.05 with a kernel 4.17.9

Screenshot(2)-600px shows the desktop with xlunch being launched from the icon on the top left of the screen.

Screenshot-600px
Now I have all the icons displaying. This following screen is using the genentries from the latest version and xlunch-3.2.10. This displays nicely.

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2768 Location: UK

rockedge · Posted: Sat 01 Sep 2018, 15:58 Post subject:

I have fixed most of it by reducing the font size --font and adjusting the descriptions in entries.dsv.

I like the --columns option and below is a view of it's use. I think a parser that runs a filter after the entries.dsv creation. The filter then shortens the description entry like this:

fredx181 · Joined: 11 Dec 2013 Posts: 4202 Location: holland

rockedge · Posted: Sat 01 Sep 2018, 16:55 Post subject:

how does one page or scroll through the different pages of the icons/text? with the --columns set is there a way to reach the other apps page up or down don't do it only if I begin to add text at the prompt like an "x"

fredx181 · Joined: 11 Dec 2013 Posts: 4202 Location: holland