Linux Desktop Hacks

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Chapter 5, KDE Desktop

#40 Create Your Own KDE Right-Click Menu Actions

HACK

Save this script to a file such as immail.sh and run it, like so:

foo@bar:~$ ./immail.sh bob

This script works by first making the command-line argument available as

the

$nick variable. After this, a while loop is started that uses grep to search

for the chosen nick in

$nick within the output of the reachableContacts

interface in KopeteIface. Nick is not online, so the process will just sleep for

10 seconds. When Nick does come online, an email is sent to [e-mail]

using the

mail command.

HACK

#40

Create Your Own KDE Right-Click

Menu Actions Hack #40

Create custom menu actions for when you right-click a file, directory, or

group of files and/or directories.

When you use KDE, do you ever find yourself having to click too many

times to do a simple operation, or resort to opening up a terminal to do a

task at the command line that should have been a no-brainer feature of

KDE? Now you can add your own features to KDE context menus. Right-

click a file and click Action

➝ Make Executable to make the file executable.

Right-click an empty space in a folder and click Action

➝ Create a new Bash

Script to open an editor and fill in the first line. This is a very cool hack

because you can create a context menu to launch scripts or programs writ-

ten in any language. It is especially powerful if you learn DCOP scripting

[Hack #39]. That