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Is there a "standalone" version of the GNOME applications menu? That is, a simple widget that can be positioned anywhere on the desktop (and closed!), like a normal window, that will expand when clicked to show all my applications.
(Then I can launch it via ssh+X from my laptop, and run apps on my desktop computer without needing to fire up a terminal and type ssh -X -C desktop.local some_x_app every time.)
detly
Posted 2010-07-08T12:14:36.370
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What about GnoMenu? As stated it is:
GnoMenu is an eye-candy GNOME menu with themes support which works with the GNOME Panel, Avant Window Navigator, Cairo Dock, KDE Plasma and starting with the latest 2.9 version: Docky.
Ubuntu version:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnomenu-team/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gnomenu
Or get it from https://launchpad.net/gnomenu
igorp1024
Posted 2010-07-08T12:14:36.370
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Nice! This is exactly what I was after. Bounty will follow in... 20 hours. – detly – 2010-07-16T14:45:09.393
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You may like Gnome-Do or the Circular Menu.
Bobby
Posted 2010-07-08T12:14:36.370
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I use Do, but I can't run it over ssh+X because I already run it on my laptop normally. Although... maybe I could remove the keybinding and force it to the tray... – detly – 2010-07-08T12:38:29.200
...no, wait, I can't because then I can't use it properly on my desktop. – detly – 2010-07-08T12:53:48.207
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What about positioning your menu at the top and the X11 forwarded one at the bottom with auto-hide?
Edit 1: From a mailinglist:
From gconftool --help-all:
Load/Save options:
--dump Dump to standard output an XML description of all entries under a directory, recursively. --load Load from the specified file an XML description of values and set them relative to a directory.
So "gconftool --dump /apps/panel > my-panel-settings.xml" and later "gconfool --load < my-panel-settings.xml" should make it.
Or look into Sabayon, maybe.
Try one of these tools, it should allow you to use the panel over X11 with a different configuration than the current configuration on the remote computer itself, good luck! :-)
Edit 2: What about just creating shortcuts that execute the ssh command line?
Tamara Wijsman
Posted 2010-07-08T12:14:36.370
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Like with Gnome Do, there would be a mismatch between the configuration for my desktop and for the laptop. Is there any way to tell a particular launch of the panel to use a certain configuration? – detly – 2010-07-16T14:20:47.100
Do my edits help? The first edit is what you ask. The second edit is the way I plan to do it... I'm running Windows 7 x64 and run a headless Gentoo VM with X11, I use Putty as a terminal and Xming to show the applications on my Windows. I really love this as it gives me the best of both worlds... The only problem I still have is starting applications and I'm planning to create shortcuts that initiate them over a SSH connection, I might as well create one hidden Putty window to keep the X11 open. X11 won't survive sleep mode either, but when that fact annoys me I can use Xvnc to work around it. – Tamara Wijsman – 2010-07-16T14:36:25.107
Another option: take a look at https://launchpad.net/cardapio
– igorp1024 – 2010-09-06T10:09:46.483