Personal Menu tips and tricks
This page is a collection of tips and tricks for Personal Menu and Personal Launcher.
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[edit] Opening File in Media Player
- Open Settings for Pmenu or PLauncher
- Click add new entry
- Name your entry
- Enter into Command to execute:
/usr/bin/dbus-send --print-reply --dest=com.nokia.mediaplayer /com/nokia/mediaplayer com.nokia.mediaplayer.mime_open string:"<location of file>"
- Choose Icon
- Click Ok and close the Settings window.
*<location to file> would be either the web address or the location of the file on your tablet
[edit] Adding entry for Web address
To add a entry for either a web address or any file that is location on your tablet that opens in browser use the following tip.
- Open Settings for Pmenu or PLauncher
- Click add new entry
- Name your entry
- Enter into Command to execute:
browser --url=<location to file>
- Choose Icon
- Click Ok and close the Settings window.
*<location to file> would be either the web address or the location of the file on your tablet
[edit] Adjust Volume using Personal Launcher
- Open Settings for Personal Launcher
- Adding Volume Down
- Click add new entry
- Name your entry
- Enter into Command to execute:
gconftool -t int -s /apps/osso/sound/master_volume `expr $(gconf-tool -g /apps/osso/sound/master_volume) - 10`
- Adding Volume Down
- Click add new entry
- Name your entry
- Enter into Command to execute:
gconftool -t int -s /apps/osso/sound/master_volume `expr $(gconf-tool -g /apps/osso/sound/master_volume) + 10`
Taken from itT Thread[1]
[edit] Adding Custom Icons for Personal Menu/Launcher
If you would like to add some icons that you can use for your personal menu/launcher or if you would like to change on that is already there follow these steps.
- Create a 64px x 64px icon and save in .png format.
- Upload file to /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon/
- Run in Terminal as root:
gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor
- Rebooting device should do the trick also.
- Set icon for your entry.
Custom icon will appear under hildon in drop down box.
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