{"id":414,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=414"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"add-replicants-to-the-deskbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"Add\n replicants to the Deskbar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Be engineer Jon W&auml;tte threw a cool utility into R4.5 at the last minute called „desklink,“ which lets you install a Replicant for any application or document into the deskbar from the command line or from your UserBootscript. The syntax is simple:<\/p>\n

desklink \/boot\/beos\/apps\/NetPositive<\/pre>\n
will put a small NetPositive Replicant into the Deskbar’s status view. To remove it, use:<\/p>\n
desklink remove=\/boot\/beos\/apps\/NetPositive<\/pre>\n
Of course, you can substitute the path to any application on your system. You can also pass in arguments to tell the Replicant exactly what to do when right-clicked. For example:<\/p>\n
desklink \"cmd=Open TipServer:\/boot\/beos\/apps\/NetPositive http:\/\/www.betips.net\/ &\" \/boot\/beos\/apps\/NetPositive<\/pre>\n
Now a left-click will launch a fresh NetPositive window, while a right-click will give you a context menu asking whether you want to „Open NetPositive“ or „Open TipServer.“ Cool, huh? Remember to include that ampersand; if you leave it out, the Deskbar might become temporarily unresponsive.
\nThe desklink<\/code> command doesn’t have to point to applications, either — it can point to any file or folder on your system.
\nIf you prefer to do this graphically, download W&auml;tte’s HotLink<\/a> utility, but remember that you can’t use the graphical version to automate the creation of Replicants at boot time.
\nAlso useful is Mike Crosland’s linker<\/a>, a Tracker Add-on that places a link to any folder, file or application in the deskbar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Be engineer Jon W&auml;tte threw a cool utility into R4.5 at the last minute called „desklink,“ which lets you install a Replicant for any application or document into the deskbar from the command line or from your UserBootscript. The syntax is simple: desklink \/boot\/beos\/apps\/NetPositive will put a small NetPositive Replicant into the Deskbar’s status view. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-tracker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}