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stemsee · Joined: 27 Jun 2013 Posts: 2572 Location: In The Way

ADDED: layout per Desktop (4 desktops) Including show/hide icons and remove labels. change layout and save. This works by naming personal saved layouts as 0, 1 ,2 ,3 .

EDIT - Now includes a gui for most functions.

cli usage

*** ALWAYS START PROCESS FROM ICONIFIED DESKTOP ***

nicons (1st use creates swithch flag and back up)
nicons (2nd use switches to iconless desktop and initiates infinite switch sequence)
nicons (3rd use switches to iconified desktop)
These first three uses setup all pins and are necessary for the following functions to work in the designed way. Otherwise they will still work but with a few surprises which may or may not be of use to you. 'nicons reset' will clear up any mess.

'nicons add' This is needed to create the icon repo, and gives options to remove all icons and rename to numbers.
'nicons repo' this just opens the existing icon repo and let's you drag more icons to the desktop. Then it calls

'nicons arrange' - which has the style menu only.
'nicons remove' - manual removeal of icons by typing name
'nicons reset' - deletes all files created by app.

'nicons noicons'

'nicons removeal'l (may need several attempts.) removes all icons for a fresh start.
'nicons two' (sets up two switchable iconifiable desktops)
'nicons pip' (exits two iconifiable desktops)
nicons nopin0
EDIT

added
nicons noname - strips labels from arranged desktop icons
nicons load - load saved layout
nicons save - builtin - save layout
nicons pevent - refresh or not drive icons.
nicons d - include drive icons
nicons gui - or niui only.
nicons loadbg - set wallpaper
nicons delay - delete layout
nicons delbg - delete wallpaper
nicons desk - puppypin per desktop, also wallpaper per pin.

There are limits for each style/shape of how many icons to use - upper limits .... not lower limits! You can modify shapes by using fewer icons, leaving shapes incomplete.

CLi or gui

Dependencies: xdotool, yad, gtkdialogue

Jasper · Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 1350 Location: England

stemsee,

You are right; it's not for me.

Earlier today you wrote:

stemsee · Joined: 27 Jun 2013 Posts: 2572 Location: In The Way

This thread is about Nicons-V2, not Show/Hide icons which didn't manage icons! It is therefore a new thread for a new app, it shares features with Show/Hide icons

stemsee · Joined: 27 Jun 2013 Posts: 2572 Location: In The Way

V2.1
Now handles drive icons 'properly'.

stemsee · Joined: 27 Jun 2013 Posts: 2572 Location: In The Way

V2.2
Now comes with 5 presets, top (from one row upto filingl the desktop) bottom (from one row upto filingl the desktop) left (two columns) right (two columns) and corners (clusters of six icons in each corner). These all work according to screen resolution so will always be correct.

This needs a gui to make it easy on the user, otherwise commandline usage may be too involved for newbies.

stemsee · Joined: 27 Jun 2013 Posts: 2572 Location: In The Way

Added two more presets! TopandBottom LeftandRight

stemsee · Joined: 27 Jun 2013 Posts: 2572 Location: In The Way

I am still figuring out how to geneerate circular clusters and concentric rings of icons. Seems there will be three main methods: sin * $(deg) cos * $((deg(radius)), (this will may not work with nested loops); nested loops method will need to add variable that sets increments both positively and negatively for both x and y; third method = templates (avoiding this one for the moment).

Another preset I want to add is frame = position icons around the perimeter of the screen. maybe possible using negative seq from maxx and maxy. and also throwing strategic $X into the $Y seq in both + and - forms; some experiments proved encouraging.

Any mathematicians among you with any pointers, please come forward!