Context menus

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Revision as of 18:24, 25 February 2013 by imported>ThorstenStaerk (→‎Questions)

When you right-click on your Linux desktop you get a context menu displayed. It looks like this:

Snapshot-context-menu-kde-1.png

How to edit it highly depends on your desktop environment.

See /usr/share/kde4/services/plasma-containmentactions-contextmenu.desktop

tweedleburg:~/.kde4/share/config # diff plasma-desktop-appletsrc~ plasma-desktop-appletsrc
3d2
< wheel:Vertical;NoModifier=switchdesktop
tweedleburg:~/.kde4/share/config # cd /usr/share/kde4/services
tweedleburg:/usr/share/kde4/services # grep -ir "switchdesktop" *
plasma-containmentactions-switchdesktop.desktop:X-KDE-Library=plasma_containmentactions_switchdesktop
plasma-containmentactions-switchdesktop.desktop:X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name=switchdesktop
tweedleburg:/usr/share/kde4/services # grep -ir "contextmenu" *
plasma-containmentactions-contextmenu.desktop:X-KDE-Library=plasma_containmentactions_contextmenu
plasma-containmentactions-contextmenu.desktop:X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name=contextmenu
plasma-containmentactions-minimalcontextmenu.desktop:X-KDE-Library=plasma_containmentactions_minimalcontextmenu
plasma-containmentactions-minimalcontextmenu.desktop:X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name=minimalcontextmenu

Questions

  • why can't I
plasmoidviewer contextmenu
while i can use the contextmenu in .kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc
  • why can't I use charselect in .kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc
while I can
plasmoidviewer charselect
  • seems this is determined by the type. One has
ServiceTypes=Plasma/ContainmentActions

the other

ServiceTypes=Plasma/Applet

See also