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Wednesday, October 22nd 2008, 8:37pm

Add/Remove applet via command

Hi,

I was wondering if there was anyway to add and remove an applet from the kde panel via the command line? I ask as I use Compiz-Switch and would like to be able to script it to also switch the Pager applet between the standard kde pager and the compiz-pager.

I'm using Kde 3.5.10.

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cjp
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Thursday, October 23rd 2008, 9:25pm

I worked it out...

In the end I work out I could use dcop for this purpose, i.e:

dcop kicker Panel insertApplet compizpagerapplet.desktop 6;

and....

dcop kicker Panel removeApplet 6

The program kdcop was very useful for creating these calls too!

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Friday, October 24th 2008, 11:37am

RE: I worked it out...

Quoted from "cjp"

In the end I work out I could use dcop for this purpose, i.e:

dcop kicker Panel insertApplet compizpagerapplet.desktop 6;

and....

dcop kicker Panel removeApplet 6

The program kdcop was very useful for creating these calls too!

A word of warning. This won't work if/when you migrate to KDE4, as DCOP has been replaced in it. ;(

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