Re: Sawfish and gnome-panel action menu

[Andrea Vettorello <dnc thctribe net>]

Andrea Vettorello wrote:

> Christian Marillat wrote:
>
> > Andrea Vettorello <dnc thctribe net> writes:
> >
> >  
> >
> > > Seems i can't bind a key to the gnome-panel "Run Application..." action
> > > with Sawsfish (gnome-panel 2.8.2, sawfish 1.3+cvs20040617, i.e. an
> > > updated Debian Sid).
> > >   
> >
> >
> > See Debian bug 217015. I've received this reply from John Harper :
> >
> > ,----
> > | this could be trivially coded in lisp:
> > | | (send-client-message 'root '_GNOME_PANEL_ACTION=20
> > | [_GNOME_PANEL_ACTION_RUN_DIALOG 0] 32)
> > | | so I don't see any reason to include this in sawfish itself
> > `----
> >
> > So this bug has been tagged wontfix upstream.
> >
> > I've received this reply in private, so the BTS contains nothing. BTW I
> > don't know if this solution is working or not.
> >  
>
> Thanks Christian, i'm trying to look how to use the above lisp one 
> liner with Sawfish (easier said than done =).
>
> I'm digging on the rep documentation right now...



Reply to myself, seems i don't know how to use what was suggested by 
John. After looking on Sawfish documentation and extensive google use 
i've cobbled this:

sawfish-client -e "(send-client-message (get-window-by-name \"Top 
Panel\") '_GNOME_PANEL_ACTION (vector (x-atom 
'_GNOME_PANEL_ACTION_RUN_DIALOG) 0) 32)"

This works binded to a key shorcut and executed as a shell script, maybe 
someone with more in depth Sawfish knowlege can suggest how to use it 
directly...


Andrea