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What's nice about it is that it doubles as an application launcher using just the keyboard. In addition, you could set up more search actions in the Whisker properties. One example could be to search the forums using the following command:Code: [Select]firefox -new-tab https://duckduckgo.com/?q="site:https://linuxliteos.com/forums %u"I set that Search Action to !ll (lowercase L's for Linux Lite). So now when I press Super key the menu pops up and I begin typing !ll and then my search query. Firefox pops up (or a new tab if already open) and searches only the LL forums using DDG. This makes finding what I'm looking for a breeze.
firefox -new-tab https://duckduckgo.com/?q="site:https://linuxliteos.com/forums %u"
#!/bin/bashENTRY=$(zenity --entry --text "Search DuckDuckGo" --title="Search")if [[ "${PIPESTATUS[0]}" -ne "0" || -z $(echo $ENTRY) ]]; thenexit 0fi sh -c 'firefox -new-tab https://duckduckgo.com/?q='"$(echo -n $ENTRY)"''
While easy to add it on my own, I'd recommend adding a default Whisker Menu shortcut in the distro.For others interested, I went to Keyboard settings and in the Applications Shortcuts tab I set the Super key to the command xfce4-popup-whiskermenu. Now I can quickly press Super and begin typing an application name.
The Super key alone shouldn't interfere with the combos including the Super key. It's only activated if you press and release immediately. I tested it just now. If I depress the Super key immediately I get the Whisker menu. If I keep it held down and press the h button then Thunar pops up but not the menu.Edit: More testing...if I hold down the Super key longer than a second the Whisker menu doesn't activate even if I release the key. This tells me that after a second or so, the window manager waits for a combination rather than the single button shortcut. Kind of nice I think.
You can add the whisker menu to your panel.
You can add the whisker menu to your panel.right-click panel -> panel -> add new item .Scroll down alot.Sheng-Chieh