Pnote is a simple notepad where you can write things that drops into your mind. - nothing new.....
What is different from other pads, is the way to use it in combination with JWM. 'Throw' your mouse-pointer into the upper-left corner of the screen, and Pnote will show up. It autohides when not in use. To get this feature working, it must be set up to as a unique tray calling 'pnote'. My extended tray configuration looks like this
Pnote is a integrated part of DuDE (starDust Desktop Environment), and configures via Pcorner. It will show up in DuDE-0.2.
It can also be used as a standalone app.
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Last edited by zigbert on Thu 04 Nov 2010, 17:32, edited 3 times in total.
--a bit temperamental on my Dell D600 getting it to load from the desktop with a pointer (flickers about 5 times before finally getting it--sometimes worse). It loads much easier if there's a browser or something already filling the window. A hot key is far more reliable.
It might be more useful if it didn't fill the entire column. I once used a transparent vim as a writable desktop that didn't block anything out.
jpeps
The way it is set up now it can only paste from clipboard. - Simply because you quit Pnote at once mouse-pointer leaves the yellow pad.
To copy to clipboard, Pnote must be running when pasting. This could be solved by running Pnote inside a tray (like xvkbd), but the downside is
- no delay before showing app.
- All left side of screen would become activating area for Pote - very annoying (I think).
put it after your main tray in .jwmrc-tray to cover it or before to go under it
you can also set the x & y position to place a small window in the desktop and also have a clickable tray button label to one side (or above/below with align="vertical")... for something like a calendar or various parts of pwidgets... I haven't tried the translucent trays in a while but that may appeal to others using this technique
Check out my [url=https://github.com/technosaurus]github repositories[/url]. I may eventually get around to updating my [url=http://bashismal.blogspot.com]blogspot[/url].
Pnote is rapidly becoming indispensable in my use of the desktop (although I need the cut & paste version). One of those seeming simple yet GREAT ideas......
I wanted to put this other ptray related idea out to you in case I forget before I get home.
swallowing a gtkdialog entrybox something like (there is probably something better than gtkdialog for this??)
...tooltip="Enter a URL">ENTRY ...
defaultbrowser $ENTRY
similar for running programs instead of gexec
...tooltip="Enter a program">ENTRY
$ENTRY
(or I guess you could always swallow rxvt using its inbuilt geometry)
... I guess they could easily be pwidgets too ...
Check out my [url=https://github.com/technosaurus]github repositories[/url]. I may eventually get around to updating my [url=http://bashismal.blogspot.com]blogspot[/url].
This is the improved version used in DuDE 0.2. It also includes:
- Paste content of Pnote. (thanks to seaside)
- Pnote can use different colors of background/font (thanks to jpeps)
Be aware that the integration of jwm has changed and become much simpler (see jwm-config example in main post).
That's what I ran into too, so I guess that is out unless there is some way to grab focus....I'm not complaining though, since this is what makes the keyboard work so nicely.
Check out my [url=https://github.com/technosaurus]github repositories[/url]. I may eventually get around to updating my [url=http://bashismal.blogspot.com]blogspot[/url].