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@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ are supported: - `c <cmnd>`: Set the command to be execute when the user clicks the icon (`cmnd` is passed to `/bin/sh -c`) - `c`: Remove the click handler + - `m <label1>,<cmd1>|<label2>,<cmd2>|...`: Set the labels and the corresponding commands to be executed when the user opens the icon menu (right-click usually) + (`cmd#` is passed to `/bin/sh -c`) + - `m`: Remove the menu handler - `h`: Hide the tray icon - `s`: Show the tray icon @@ -39,6 +42,14 @@ Quoted strings are terminated by a matching quote at the end of a line (ignoring whitespace). To escape a quote character at the end of a line to continue a quoted string, prefix it with a `\`. +The m(enu) command uses `,` as a delimiter between label and command and `|` as a delimiter +between entries (label+command).If you want to use these 2 characters in a label or command, you have to escape +them with `\`. If you want to have an entry with just a label and no command to be executed, you can omit the +`,<cmd>` part. If you want an empty label (e.g. as a separator), you can just add a second `|` delimiter after the previous one. +If you want a command to be executed upon selection of an empty label, you can add `,<cmd>` after the previous `|`. + +Example command: `echo "m Browser,firefox|Terminal,xterm|Label-only||,chromium" > /tmp/test` (where `mkfifo /tmp/test` has been executed before) + ## Why? Because I wanted to be able to create tray icons from bash without all the |