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asqwerth
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Re: Settings Manager

#31 Post by asqwerth »

Dolphin has a tutorial on how to make/edit your own custom toolbox from 5:08 of this video introducing MX Workbench : https://youtu.be/zwLz2vLc_qg

But the instructions there need to be fleshed out and adapted, since he was making the custom toolbox from within Workbench which runs as root so allows root menu entries to not ask for root password.
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#32 Post by Jerry3904 »

Thanks. I vaguely remember seeing that, but Adrian's app is so simple that any user can change what s/he wants, and I find that very attractive.
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#33 Post by i_ri »

custom-toolbox is signicantly simple yet seriously spectacular genius.
installing it answered my questions. /submenus/settings menu item now.

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#34 Post by Jerry3904 »

Can you show what you mean exactly?
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#35 Post by i_ri »

Hello Jerry3904
i echo simple. like a template - ish.
custom-toolbox is svg menu in fluxbox.
I tried to drag and drop links is the only thing simpler.
fluxbox rootmenu where i can find it for opening, settins menu,
with the .list list acting as a type of submenu mixed with launchers
this custom-toolbox has no limit on being a full-blown menu tree.
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#36 Post by Jerry3904 »

Thanks. I thought you meant you had a way to add the Fluxbox settings to the Custom Toolbox--which I am trying to do.
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Re: Settings Manager

#37 Post by ceeslans »

this custom-toolbox is really cool...
it's so easy to create a categorized list of tools for immediate execution, be it as normal user or root.

@Adrian: 'customs-toolbox' does sort the categories alfabetically - but the app names list is read from bottom-to-top... How to correct that?

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#38 Post by Jerry3904 »

@ceeslans If you already created a desktop file for tint2manager could you pm me with it?
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Re: Settings Manager

#39 Post by Jerry3904 »

OK, I am finished with a Beta version--need to move on to other topics. Here is the GUI:

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We'll keep the thread open for questions, comments and suggestions.

@dolphin_oracleI'm going to upload this into my mxfb-accessories repo, and we can talk later about whether that will work from your packaging perspective.
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Re: Settings Manager

#40 Post by Adrian »

I pushed a new custom-toolbox build: https://github.com/MX-Linux/custom-tool ... aster/debs

* Preserve order from list when adding buttons
* Add "alias" option to change displayed name of program, just add "alias new name" after a name (but after "root" specifier if you need that)
* Don't ask for root access if .list file is editable by user
* Faster and probably more complete icon search
* Save config file under ~/.config/MX-Linux (each custom toolbox has its own config file that looks like with "custom-toolbox_name.conf"

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