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Author Topic: Is it possible to add custom Farrs to Farr toolbar?  (Read 11952 times)

kartal

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Is it possible to add custom Farrs to Farr toolbar?
« on: May 17, 2008, 05:18 PM »
I want to add pkill, timer etc plugins to Farr toolbar. So if I click on the icon pkill it will put pkill to farr edit box automatically thus I would not need to type pkill all the time. I know I can set a shortcut but It is overkill to waste shortcuts for all the plugins. Would there be some kind of commandline optionto invoke or call certain plugins from toolbar?

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Re: Is it possible to add custom Farrs to Farr toolbar?
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2008, 06:02 PM »
I found the solution. "-search pkill"  works great

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Re: Is it possible to add custom Farrs to Farr toolbar?
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2008, 10:10 AM »
is this a feature i don't know about? what exactly did you manage to accomplish?

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Re: Is it possible to add custom Farrs to Farr toolbar?
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2008, 10:11 AM »
another possibility is you can create a custom alias group with your favorite commands, and have it shown when farr comes up.

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Re: Is it possible to add custom Farrs to Farr toolbar?
« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2008, 04:08 PM »
Multiple F icons are my special alias, I just added them to toolbar so that I do not need to type everytime I need them.



is this a feature i don't know about? what exactly did you manage to accomplish?

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Re: Is it possible to add custom Farrs to Farr toolbar?
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2008, 04:42 PM »
and what happens when you click them?? what do they launch? separate copies of FARR?

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Re: Is it possible to add custom Farrs to Farr toolbar?
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2008, 04:46 PM »
no they do not run seperate farr, they just run within current farr. So One is pkill (process kill), I click on it it runs pkill plugin by putting pkill in the search tab. I guess I just have found a new way to use farr? :)




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Re: Is it possible to add custom Farrs to Farr toolbar?
« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2008, 04:57 PM »
So... you move your hands off the keyboard to navigate the mouse and click an icon, then back to they keyboard to type the app name? Makes no sense to me :)
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Re: Is it possible to add custom Farrs to Farr toolbar?
« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2008, 04:59 PM »
I do not type anything to kill a process? Pkill gives you list of running processes, I just double click to kill any process.

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Re: Is it possible to add custom Farrs to Farr toolbar?
« Reply #9 on: May 18, 2008, 05:00 PM »
I guess I'm just too used to the keyboard, especially for FARR :)
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Re: Is it possible to add custom Farrs to Farr toolbar?
« Reply #10 on: May 18, 2008, 05:01 PM »
Well one more thing is that when you have alot of plugins and aliases it is hard to remember all the aliases instantly. This is one way to quickly access to seldom used aliases and plugins

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Re: Is it possible to add custom Farrs to Farr toolbar?
« Reply #11 on: May 18, 2008, 05:02 PM »
How do you show them up when farr comes up?


another possibility is you can create a custom alias group with your favorite commands, and have it shown when farr comes up.

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Re: Is it possible to add custom Farrs to Farr toolbar?
« Reply #12 on: May 18, 2008, 07:27 PM »
that's pretty clever use.. though i'm not sure if you are really creating a 2nd instance of FARR when you do that..
if so then i could easily add code to avoid that and have it just trigger the current instance.

you asked about having farr come up with your custom alias:
  • create your alias of choice and populate its results with the commands you want in your initial "menu" of choices
  • then go to the hotkeys section, edit the hotkey trigger of your choice,
  • and specify the alias name in the "Text for search edit Box
  • now when you trigger FARR up will pop that menu or command, etc.
  • you could also of course make a hotkey that pops up with "pskill " in the text box.

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Re: Is it possible to add custom Farrs to Farr toolbar?
« Reply #13 on: May 18, 2008, 07:38 PM »
Mouser I am not running any second instance of farr at all, at least I cannot see a second instancenot even in the process list. It triggers nicely here/

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Re: Is it possible to add custom Farrs to Farr toolbar?
« Reply #14 on: May 19, 2008, 05:01 AM »
mouser forgot the nice feature he added for me  :D
the -search command-line switch

from help :

-search "search string" = start FARR visible (or bring up any running copy) and start a search

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Re: Is it possible to add custom Farrs to Farr toolbar?
« Reply #15 on: May 19, 2008, 06:00 AM »
 :-[ oops, i forgot I added that.

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Re: Is it possible to add custom Farrs to Farr toolbar?
« Reply #16 on: May 19, 2008, 08:28 AM »
that's because FARR is too good to be true  :P

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Re: Is it possible to add custom Farrs to Farr toolbar?
« Reply #17 on: May 19, 2008, 10:12 AM »
farr is far ahead of any other tool I am using, it is a fact. It would use some optimization for more speed thou :)

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Re: Is it possible to add custom Farrs to Farr toolbar?
« Reply #18 on: May 19, 2008, 01:26 PM »
farr is far ahead of any other tool I am using, it is a fact. It would use some optimization for more speed thou :)

really ? what's slow in your experience ?

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Re: Is it possible to add custom Farrs to Farr toolbar?
« Reply #19 on: May 19, 2008, 01:33 PM »
It is not slow :) It can be faster:) I would like to use farr as document search tool as well once it is faster :)

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Re: Is it possible to add custom Farrs to Farr toolbar?
« Reply #20 on: May 19, 2008, 02:12 PM »
Don't want to hijack the thread... but do you use the locate plug in (i think I read somewhere that you're using it....) ? That should accelerate document searching. I use farr for document searching a lot, and it's fast. (I admit using locate directly most of the time though, or even X1)

So... yes, there's room for improvement in the search/indexing area. The most obvious problems I have right now are with French diacritical (accents) and the locate plugin not showing all results, for some mysterious reasons.

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Re: Is it possible to add custom Farrs to Farr toolbar?
« Reply #21 on: May 19, 2008, 03:02 PM »
locate plugin is definetely great I started using last week

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Re: Is it possible to add custom Farrs to Farr toolbar?
« Reply #22 on: May 19, 2008, 05:46 PM »
The locate plugin hangs a bit every now and then, though :/ - and (because of FARR limitations) doesn't support unicode. Once FARRv3 hits the streets (/me pokes mouser), it would be nice with a slightly more 'integrated' plugin :)
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