Author Topic: Is it possible to add custom Farrs to Farr toolbar? (Read 13026 times)

kartal · « **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?

kartal · « **Reply #1 on:** May 17, 2008, 06:02 PM »

I found the solution. "-search pkill" works great

mouser · « **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?

mouser · « **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.

kartal · « **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?
-mouser (May 18, 2008, 10:10 AM)

mouser · « **Reply #5 on:** May 18, 2008, 04:42 PM »

and what happens when you click them?? what do they launch? separate copies of FARR?

kartal · « **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?

f0dder · « **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

kartal · « **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.

f0dder · « **Reply #9 on:** May 18, 2008, 05:00 PM »

I guess I'm just too used to the keyboard, especially for FARR

kartal · « **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

kartal · « **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.
-mouser (May 18, 2008, 10:11 AM)

mouser · « **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.

kartal · « **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/

nitrix-ud · « **Reply #14 on:** May 19, 2008, 05:01 AM »

mouser forgot the nice feature he added for me

the -search command-line switch

from help :

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

mouser · « **Reply #15 on:** May 19, 2008, 06:00 AM »

oops, i forgot I added that.

nitrix-ud · « **Reply #16 on:** May 19, 2008, 08:28 AM »

that's because FARR is too good to be true

kartal · « **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

Armando · « **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
-kartal (May 19, 2008, 10:12 AM)

really ? what's slow in your experience ?

kartal · « **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

Armando · « **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.

kartal · « **Reply #21 on:** May 19, 2008, 03:02 PM »

locate plugin is definetely great I started using last week

f0dder · « **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