A selection of handy X11/XFCE4 scripts

For personal use or use by anyone who is interested.

Custom command templates for Thunar

Templates for integrating custom commands into thunar.

Create image placeholder

Name:     Generate a place holder image
Command:  xfce4-terminal --color-bg="#FF7F7F" --color-text="#000000" --hide-menubar --hide-toolbar --hide-scrollbar --drop-down --title "Generate Placeholder" --working-directory=%f -e "bash /home/paul/myscripts/X11-window-scripts/dl-img-placeholder.sh"

Shortcut window

Required installed software:

• xdotool
• notify-send
• zenity

Allows binding keys to windows to activate a given window and send arbitrary keyboard inputs to a shortcutted window. The window-manager need to be used in to create keybindings for invoking the script.

Usage:

shortcut-window.sh store [key]

Stores the currently active window under name [key].

shortcut-window.sh activate [key]

Activates the windows stored under name [key].

shortcut-window.sh rec_key [key] [shortcut-key]

Creates a keysequence to be sent to window bound to name [key]. The name of the stored keysequence will be [shortcut-key].

shortcut-window.sh send_key [shortcut-key]

Sends the named keysequence [shortcut-key] to the window that was associated with the keysequence using rec_key.