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Shay,
I don't think fvwm supports this directly; but you can script it...
If you could wrap all of your apps from a script which keeps a tally of
number of times its been run, then you would be able to create such a
menu. Unfortunately, you would still need to restart fvwm before this
menu is updated.
So, I wrote an example script (attached as tally.rb, written in ruby, < 60
lines). One must modify his .fvwm2rc file to use it:
<snip>
AddToMenu SomeMenu "Apps"
+ "Browser" Exec exec tally.rb Browser
+ "Editor" Exec exec tally.rb Editor --some-flag
</snip>
Compared to the original:
<snip>
AddToMenu SomeMenu "Apps"
+ "Browser" Exec exec Browser
+ "Editor" Exec exec Editor --some-flag
</snip>
This script will then generate an fvwm-style menu in some file (the
attached example uses ~/.fvwm_dynamic_menu), which you can include into a
.fvwm2rc (note that you need to restart before changes take effect):
<snip>
Read .fvwm_dynamic_menu
</snip>
This program could also be used from the command line, i.e.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tally.rb echo Hello World
Hello World
But this seems less useful; you cannot supply command line parameters in
as useful a fashion in programs are launched from a menu.
Hope this helps.
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Nicholas Paul Johnson
o nickjohnson \at\ virginia \dot\ edu
o 3ebf10a7 subkeys.pgp.net
o http://manjac.ath.cx/nick
o "When all you've got is a hammer,
everything looks like a nail.
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On Wed, 5 May 2004, Xavier Maillard wrote:
> On 4 May 2004, Shay wrote:
>
> > Is there a way for FVWM to find the most used applications? I'm
> > dreaming of a command line interface which automatically builds a root
> > menu for quick access to the most often used items.
>
> Hummmm, dunno if it exists but I just love the idea yet :)
>
>
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#!/usr/local/bin/ruby -w
# files... don't need to change
dbFile = "#{ENV['HOME']}/.tally_db"
fvwmFile = "#{ENV['HOME']}/.fvwm_dynamic_menu"
# fvwm-name for the menu
menuName = 'FrequentMenu'
# determine name of command being executed
commandName = ARGV[0]
# update the program usage database
# load db and increment/insert the program we are running
db = { commandName => 1 }
begin
IO.readlines(dbFile).each do |line|
prog, count = line.split
count = count.to_i
count += 1 if prog == commandName
db[prog] = count
end
rescue
end
begin
# save the database
File.open(dbFile, 'w') do |fout|
db.each_pair do |key,val|
fout.syswrite "#{key} #{val}\n"
end
end
# save an FVWM menu
File.open(fvwmFile, 'w') do |fout|
fout.syswrite "AddToMenu #{menuName} \"Common Applications\" Title\n"
# sort entries in decending order by occurance
sorted = db.sort { |a,b| b[1] <=> a[1] }
# write each program as a menu entry
sorted.each do |entry|
fout.syswrite "+ \"#{entry[0]}\" Exec exec tally.rb
#{entry[0]}\n"
end
end
rescue
puts "Cannot open for writing"
end
# execute the program as normal
exec ARGV.join(' ')
