musher0 wrote:MochiMoppel wrote:musher0 wrote:An interesting thing I discovered on my way to correcting a typo --
or why you should actually edit the Groups.xml file by hand.
musher0, you still haven't understood the purpose of this script and maybe you even haven't understood the concept of speeddials. The point is that you use the 10 number keys
while you are in a ROX window. That's the whole beauty of this concept. And because the slots are limited to 0-9 (limited by ROX and your keyboard, not by me!), there is absolutely no point in increasing them in the Groups.xml file. Of course you can do your " interesting things" with the file and edit it despite all warnings, but be prepared that ROX will change it. If you really want to do what you are doing now, make a copy of the file, name it musher0.xml and change the variable INPUT in the script. It will work. But it is beyond me why you want to do this.
Hi, MochiMoppel.
User notes:
* I have been using the extended Groups.xml for 24 hours now, and it hasn't failed me.
* I routinely make back-ups of such configuration files.
* The slots are limited only in your concept of it, as I have demonstrated before.
* "But it is beyond me why you want to do this." Indeed, why would I?
___ As a developer, I need to go to more than 10 folders in a jiffy; it saves me time.
You brought to the fore a poorly documented "accelerator" feature of ROX-Filer.
Many thanks for that.
As for me, I am rejoicing that the feature that you uncovered can do more than advertised.
Obviously, you have a different feeling about this.
Respectfully,
musher0
so you get ten you can activate with the number keys and a new popup for an independent set of clickable bookmarks/favorites. the file appears to keep rewriting the newest change at the end (my copy of groups in .config/... has the whole thing between <groups> and </groups> as one line, line 4. is there any harm if i divide it up by <group name="x"></group>?)
musher's idea is easily done by highlighting, middle clicking, adding a digit to the name="_x" part. first step gives you a duplicate, which then frees the keyboard 0-9 activated slot for something else, keeping the original still a bookmark, keyable with the arrows and as clickable as the rest of the lot.
anyway, if rox just changes what gets defined by ctrl+[0-9], i don't see what harm musher's idea does. in fact, i think it's excellent. if Rox for whatever reason does wipe out all the "extraneous" data, then i'd like to confirm that
...name it [____].xml...change the variable INPUT in the script
gives a second bookmarks popup without affecting the original.
also, is
at the tip of a text file enough to make it an xml file?
thanks in advance, Mochi.
musher, do you think you could plug the info from /root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel into Mochi's script somehow? would something like
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INPUT="/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel"
work?
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also, it seems to me the reason for the ability to save selections is to make it a quick launch for files and programs as well as folders. takes an extra enter key press, but that's what it would be. you click a number while in a folder, it takes you elsewhere with a file highlighted, the highlighted thing launches with whatever the run action has been set to once you press enter. something like that.