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It would be lovely to have the "Application Menu, a launcher based on cascading popup menus" as an icon in my i3bar to have a general overview of the packages I have installed in my system, within each categories (Internet, Games etc.) I could not figure out how to start the applet in the i3 environment. Is there a command that could call the applet itself (may also start some KDE process that runs ONLY in the background)? Obviously, I do not want to start the whole KDE5.
I found that running plasmashell -ws or plasmashell --windowed --shut-up starts the whole KDE desktop as a window which can also manage windows started from within i3wm. However, that is such an overkill to just start one component/plasmoid. I found that kcmshell{4,5} can be used to call a collection of modules that are available via kcmshell{4,5} --list, but they are seemingly not plasmoids.
hyiltiz
Posted 2015-12-13T10:49:26.207
Reputation: 276
2Now I am trying to find out a way to put this windowed applet/plasmoid into my i3bar as a icon. – hyiltiz – 2015-12-16T04:53:36.853
Any newer developments in this front? – Nikos Alexandris – 2016-09-01T06:19:56.817
I am content with the solution above (you can use
i3to move and rescale the widget as you like), so no more news on my side. KDE or i3 might have something interesting though. – hyiltiz – 2016-09-27T23:29:09.810Do you use Klipper under i3?
– Nikos Alexandris – 2016-09-28T14:22:24.110Nope, I haven't tried using it. If it is an plasma app, you can list it using one of the above commands, and once you find its command line name (org.kde.plasma.*), then you should be able to also only activate it within i3. As I am a heavy vim user, I mainly rely on my editor to do the pastebin job. – hyiltiz – 2016-09-28T16:40:49.543
Off-topic, maybe: I nearly write every text with vim. How do you replicate a list of "copy-paste" entries though within it? – Nikos Alexandris – 2016-10-01T06:45:26.600