Launcher for "Present Windows" effect

[x-shaney-x]

Does anyone know of a way to create a panel launcher to initiate the present windows effect?

In days (years) gone by I would simply use a dcop command to do it with compiz but in KDE there doesn't seem to be anything like that.
Failing that, are there any know plasma widgets that would do it?

I know I can use screen edges or keyboard shortcuts but I am using the touchpad a lot and have panels and everything moved to the top of the screen so window and panel controls are all around the same area so if I use top screen edges then I initiate it when I don't want to and lower screen edges mean a lot more pointer movement which makes it pointless. Plus I am using most apps fully maximized which makes it all to easy to accidentally touch screen edges anyway.
And I just never get used to keyboard shortcuts so would rally prefer a panel icon.

[richb]

The "current application control widget" presents windows.

[x-shaney-x]

Yes, that's what I'm using at the moment but it takes up quite a bit of room on my panel and is squashing everything up somewhat.

[SecretCode]

This guy Mouse shortcuts with xbindkeys « Who Says Penguins Can't Fly? says

...the KWin effects “Present Windows” and “Desktop Grid”. I couldn’t find any D-Bus calls for this, so let’s try to achieve it in another way. The effects are already mapped to some keyboard shortcuts – maybe we can find a command to “emulate” these key presses?

You might be able to create the launcher icon that launches a shell script that calls xte as that page describes.

[x-shaney-x]

Ahh! That did it
No need to call a script, just created a Kmenu entry with the xte command and dragged it to the panel. Works perfectly. Many thanks

[SecretCode]

Cool! ... You can now mark the thread as SOLVED!