homemade launcher in lxpanel

**JC Cheloven** · April 28th, 2012

Originally Posted by dawnlove

to get launcher to both open and close I need two Exec='s

You shouldn't: the command "eject -T" is supposed to open the tray if it's closed and vice-versa.

Originally Posted by dawnlove

I've managed to make a launcher in /usr/share/applications. (lubuntu 11.4) to open/close optical drive. But it will only work if you open "/usr/share/applications" and click on it. It does not show up in menu and of course I can't choose it in lxpanel. Any help would be great
this is my launcher
[Desktop Entry]
Name=eject
Type=Application
Comment=eject close
Icon=/home/dove/icons/eject.png
Exec=eject
Exec=eject -T
Categories=Utility;
#NoDisplay=true

Your above .desktop file works nicely for me, with only one Exec:

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=eject
Type=Application
Comment=eject close
Icon=/home/jc/kk/mete-saca.png
#Exec=eject
Exec=eject -T
Categories=Utility;
#NoDisplay=true

Apart from the evident icon change, my file is /usr/share/applications/eject.desktop, the owner is set to root, and the permissions are rw for the ownwer, nothing for everybody else. And not executable.
The icon appears in my lxde menu (using lubuntu 11.04 here), under accesories, and works nicely as expected. Hope some detail in the above will help you.

Anyway: if you want to have this function at hand, ¿shouldn't be better to assign it to a keyboard shorcut? In Lubuntu you have to edit manually a file for that, which is

Code:

~/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml

. I think you'll figure out how to do it looking at other shorcuts (look for "<keyboard>" in that file). If you like the idea and have any trouble, please come back to ask

JC

**dawnlove** · April 29th, 2012

Originally Posted by Dennis N

Tested this and it shows up in the menu (accessories):

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Icon=shellscript
Name=Ejector
Comment=Eject a CD	
Categories=Utility;
Exec=eject
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false

and works to open the tray. Adding the second "Exec=" did nothing - it was ignored.

I saved it as ejector.desktop in ~/.local/share/applications/

If it was more complex, a shell-script would be in order, but eject is a built in command so it works anyway.

Good Luck.

Many thanx your desktop entry showed up in my menu but did not close drive until I added a the second "Exec="? see below

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Icon=/home/dove/icons/eject.png
Name=Ejector
Comment=Eject a CD
Categories=Utility;
Exec=eject
Exec=eject -T
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false

many thanx again