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I installed xfce4-appfinder on Ctrl+Space and dmenu on Ctrl+Alt+Space and it is a great combo.
But I have a problem. When I press Ctrl+Space, the appfinder window pops up, but if I just type, as I would naturally do, the text gets typed into the windo I was in before, not the appfinder search value field. I think the appfinder window isn’t getting focus (if I’m saying that right) and I was trying to put something into the ~/.icewm/winoptions file to make it get focus and allow search string input when it pops up.
Anyone know how?
- This topic was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by BobC.
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installed + tested, I didn’t have the same result.
Yes, as soon as the xfce4-appfinder launches, it receives focus and a blinking text cursor is evident in its entrybox.
Have you modded any of your iceWM preferences, stuff like “sloppy mouse focus”?The problem I immediately observed (tested iceWM and fluxbox):
“keep a running instance” is set, by default, in xfce4-appfinder… but after using it once (launched from commandline), I can’t regain its window. No taskbar icon for it, alt+tab window tabbing doesn’t raise its window. So, aside from all else, I suggest you check “htop”. Just a hunch, but I’m guessing you’re launching a fresh instance every time you activate the keybind (and multiple “previously launched, and lost” instances have accumulated).kupfer (python + gtk)
^———– FWIW, that’s the “runner” utility I would choose instead of xfce4-appfinderSince I‘m almost never using any shortcuts, I‘m not 100% sure, but wasn‘t there a function in IceWM that would get activated on pressing Ctrl+Space or Ctrl+Alt+Space and then one can type the application name, which shows on the taskbar (some sort of „Run“)?
Please try some other combination like Win+D (for Dmenu) and Win+SomethingUnused for XFCE Appfinder.
Just to see if that works.
„Run“
antiX Full has at least 3 pre-installed
fbrun (provided by fluxbox),
gExec (bound to Alt+F2 in default antiX settings), and
gksuYah. At a command prompt, type gksu + press Enter
When no arguments are passed, gksu displays a “Run program” window.
Many people probably overlook its availability as an application runner ~~ its package installs a .desktop file which has an Exec= line specifying x-terminal-emulator (and a description “Root Terminal”)noClue, it does by default have a little command line that pops up with Ctrl+Alt+Space, but that’s not good enough. That is setup in ~/.icewm/preferences.
It also can be configured to use dmenu on that key by adding this line to ~/.icewm/keys
key “Ctrl+Alt+Space” dmenu_run -i -b -fn 10×20 -nb black -nf white -sb grey -sf black
Xfce4’s App Finder can bet installed with synaptic or apt-get with “sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install xfce4-appfinder” and I like to make it work off Ctrl+Space and leave dmenu on Ctrl+Alt+Space
key “Ctrl+Space” xfce4-appfinder
But to make it work nicely I needed to have the mouse focus set for sloppy focus and add this line in ~/.icewm/winoptions to create the window in a nice position with ps -ef xfce45a nice size. I used xprop to find the window name.
xfce4-appfinder.Xfce4-appfinder.geometry: 700×500+100+200
Skidoo, you were right, Focus on the menu was set to “Click to Focus”. I changed it to sloppy mouse focus and just need to move the mouse to the window and the cursor goes there.
Thanks muchI did try installing kupfer but I like how xfce’s appfinder puts the close guesses on the screen and looks nice. I checked and its not putting 10 of them in memory. Maybe I missed doing some configuration for kupfer?
PS: skidoo, thanks for the other suggestions. I’ll give them a try tomorrow. My desktop is getting very comfy 🙂
- This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by BobC.
I changed it to sloppy mouse focus and just need to move the mouse to the window and the cursor goes there.
okay, but I haven’t chosen sloppy mouse focus & can’t recall changing any of the default iceWM prefs, and… as soon as xfce4-appfinder launches, its entrybox grabs focus and I just start typing (don’t need to touch the mouse). In my post above, I was wondering whether you had, maybe, enabled sloppymousefocus and that was causing the behavior described in the OP.
iceWM :: Ctrl+Alt+Space (found it on this system bound to Ctrl+Space)
aha! I had forgotten about that iceWM feature.kupfer does provide fuzzy search as you type, but (I reinstalled a stock v2.0.8 and tested) it doesn’t display the currentlist unless I press the down arrow key. Launched it from commandline and I’m seeing a lot of python exception lines. Also, its “Preferences” menu item is unresponsive. Checking my archive, I see that “kupfer-209” is what I had used previously (that may be a newer version, or a custom version I had been hacking on, back in ’18).
I did try the fbrun, gexec and gksu and they don’t quickly pop up a nice easy to spot the app list (from its icon and name) that I was looking for. Sometimes navigating the menu trees is a pain and I have trouble remembering where a particular program is to get to it.
I have the dmenu when I want lower level, command line launch ability running off Ctrl+Alt+Space, and gexec is both on the start menu and mapped to Alt+F2.
Your kupfer is close, like Launchy, but I like the xfce4-appfinder, and since MX is xfce based, I can count on a non-systemd version being available from the Dev’s here, I would think. It’s only a couple mb, so not too bad footprint wise when I added it.
Thanks for the wealth of ideas and suggestions. And no, I don’t understand why it didn’t come up right in the fist place, either 🙂
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