if you like a fancy startmenu or want to add some simple widgets without a truckload of dependencies then I probably got something for you.
What Navig8or is:
By default, Navig80r is a borderless, pseudo-transparent window which may be populated with a few widgets specified in a config file.
Currently available widgets are:
1) Shaped button
2) label
3) image
4) launch entry field
5) application menu
6) monitoring display
7) drop target
What the widgets do:
1) Shaped buttons launch an application linked to them when clicked. If they are not set as persistent, the Navig8or window they are attached to will be closed.
2) Labels are good for displaying some text - what else?
3) Images - well - no explanation necessary I think
4) Type the name of your application into the field, press ENTER, and your program starts
5) Basically what you already know from JWM's startmenu, but as a widget ready to be added to your customized menu window.
6) The monitoring display reads the content of the text file linked to it (once per second), and displays that content.
7) The drop target retrieves the drop item's full path and launches an associated program with it.
How to control them:
Navig8or is started with the following parameters:
"/usr/local/navig8or $POSX $POSY /path/to/config"
$POSX and $POSY determine the position of the top left corner of the windoe on the screen
The Config file:
Every widget to be displayed requires a little one-liner in the config file, among with a few important window settings. The config options are:
<property>unfocusquit</property>
--- Closes the window whenever it loses the focus
<geometry>x=xSize y=ySize</geometry>
--- Determines the window's width and height
<showimage>Image="/path/to/image" x=xPos y=yPos</showimage>
--- Displays the linked image at position xPos yPos (from the top left of the navig8or window)
<shapedbutton>Image="/path/to/image" x=xPos y=yPos command="/path/to/application" Kill=yes/no</shapedbutton>
--- A button shaped according to the mask generated from the icon dusplayed on it, which starts the linked application when pressed. The Kill option may be yes or no. If it's yes the application window will be closed if the button is pressed, otherwise it will stay open and active afterwards.
<showmenu>x=xPos y=yPos</showmenu>
--- Shows the main menu
<showentry>x=xPos y=yPos</showentry>
--- Shows the launcher entry
<showlabel>Text="Insert text here" x=xPos y=yPos color=whatever</showlabel>
--- Shows a text at the specified position in the specified color
<monitor>File="/path/to/textfile" x=xPos y=yPos color=whatever</monitor>
--- Constantly monitors the content of the linked textfile and displays it as a text in the specified color.
<droptarget>Image="/path/to/file" x=xPos y=yPos color=whatever command="application"</droptarget>
--- Provides a drop target widget which launches programs and associates the dropped file to it.
EXAMPLES:
The screenshot shows a few things you can do with Navig8or, I included a few configs in the dotpet (the ones that made most sense).
- Monitoring widgets (top right)
--->image + monitoring from a text file in /root/.navig8or/datafiles
- Menu (bottom left)
---> included everything except for monitoring stuff. The window will close if it loses focus, after a certain amount of time, and when one of the widgets included is triggered
- Launcher icons (bottom left, behind the menu, and bottom right)
---> shaped button: the left one starts the menu, the right one immediately opens the TinyLogout window I included in the package
Stuff I didn't include:
- Wallpaper "widget"
--->simply a window scaled up to fit the screen with a scaled version of the wallpaper I wanted to use. My pic2root program is more effective, however, so I didn't bother including this one in the mix.
- Dock (top)
---> an image with lots of shaped buttons on it. Just a copy of my wbar launcher, no need to include it either.
TODO:
- try to improve it's speed
Well, so much from my side. Any suggestions and feedback is very welcome. Have fun with it, I did already.
UPDATE:
Repacked the dotpet as I forgot to remove the theme skelleton I used for the older version.
