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**Rog131** · Feb 22, 2011, 05:32 AM

Re: Kmenu opens files differently from Dolphin

More information would be helpful

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How did you make the desktop file ?
What is in the desktop file ?
How the Linux/KDE is seeing the desktop file ?

Working at here

Right click an empty area in the Dolphin > Crate New > Link to Application.
The desktop template is presented.

General tab -> Adding the name: Monitor Off.
Application tab -> Adding the command: sleep 1 && xset dpms force off.

Press OK.

Right click the "Monitor Off.desktop" > Properties.
General tab -> Click the Icon > Pick the Icon.

Press OK.

The Monitor Off.desktop has:

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Comment[en_US]=
Comment=
Exec=sleep 1 && xset dpms force off
GenericName[en_US]=
GenericName=
Icon=video-display
MimeType=
Name[en_US]=
Name=
Path=
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-DBUS-ServiceName=
X-DBUS-StartupType=
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=desktop_kdebase

The Linux/KDE is seeing the desktop file as

:~$ file "/home/rog/Desktop/Monitor Off.desktop"
/home/rog/Desktop/Monitor Off.desktop: ASCII text

or/and

kmimetypefinder "/home/rog/Desktop/Monitor Off.desktop"
application/x-desktop
(accuracy 100)

Adding to the K-Menu

[img width=400 height=232]http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/4044/kmenueditor.png[/img]

Right click K > Menu Editor
Drag and drop the Monitor Off.desktop to the "Utilities". Adding the shortcut - "Advanced" tab.
Save and exit the Menu editor

Here the K-Menu/shortcut is working OK.

Information

man sleep

NAME
sleep - delay for a specified amount of time

SYNOPSIS
sleep NUMBER[SUFFIX]...
sleep OPTION

DESCRIPTION
Pause for NUMBER seconds.

man xset

NAME
xset - user preference utility for X

dpms flags...
The dpms option allows the DPMS (Energy Star) parameters to be set. The option can take up to
three numerical values, or the `force' flag followed by a DPMS state. The `force' flags forces
the server to immediately switch to the DPMS state specified...

man file

NAME
file — determine file type

kmimetypefinder --help

Usage: kmimetypefinder [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [options] filename

Gives the mimetype for a given file

Notes

The Menu editor is a .desktop file editor/maker (> Topic: GtoK: .desktop files) and a xml "editor".

When you add a menu item, the Menu editor will make a desktop file to the ~/.local/share/applications/. The Menu editor also adds a marking to the ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu.

**efAston** · Feb 22, 2011, 04:33 PM

Re: Kmenu opens files differently from Dolphin

I actually downloaded the shortcut rather than making it, when I open it in Kate I get

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Comment=Turn Off the Monitor
Categories=Application;Utilities;
Exec=xset dpms force off
GenericName=Turn Off Monitor
Icon=weather-clear-night
Name=Turn Off Monitor
NoDisplay=false
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=0
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=

It's sitting in /home/aston/Applicaitons/TurnOffMonitor.desktop

Doing it the way you do it, where I actually type the sleep command the Kmenu entry, works, so that does actually solve my problem and thanks. What I was trying to do, is rather than putting "sleep 1 && xset dpms force off" in the command field I was putting "/home/aston/Applications/TurnOffMonitor.desktop". It seems to be pretty sporadic whether or not this works, before I last re-installed Kubuntu, that's exactly how I was using it, bun now all I get is Kate.

If Kmenu is creating a link pointing to a link, that could be a problem, but when I tried looking for /usr/share/, (what does .local mean?) there's no applications directory, so I couldn't figure out how to drop the .desktop file directly in there.

Anyway, problem solved, just still trying to poke around and figure some things out.

Cheers,
Aston

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