1. Introduction
2. Installation
3. Usage
   • Open Menu
   • Open Settings
   • Add Folder
   • Add Command
   • Group Commands
4. Dependencies
5. Build

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Introduction

QuickAccess is a program running in the background providing a global menu to quickly access user defined folders and their subfolders as well as creating and running custom commands.

The menu can be opened through two dbus methods: showMenu and showDelayedMenu.

Both methods can open the menu in a predefined fixed position or on mouse position.

showMenu shows the menu instantly, but in certain circumstances there are problems with the menu not showing or not closing. In these cases use the showDelayedMenu, there is a default delay of 150 miliseconds, but can be changed (see example below).

Installation

Easiest way to install is through flatpak, flatpaks should work on all distros.

Flatpak setup guide

flatpak install flathub com.georgefb.quickaccess
flatpak run com.georgefb.quickaccess

If you don't like flatpak you can build from source or ask the your distro to provide a package.

Usage

Open Menu

# with qdbus
qdbus com.georgefb.quickaccess /QuickAccess showMenu x
qdbus com.georgefb.quickaccess /QuickAccess showDelayedMenu 200 x

# with dbus-send
dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=com.georgefb.quickaccess /QuickAccess com.georgefb.QuickAccess.showMenu int32:x
dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=com.georgefb.quickaccess /QuickAccess com.georgefb.QuickAccess.showDelayedMenu int32:200 int32:x

replace x with a number from 0 to 9 to set the preffered position where the menu should open.

• 0 - mouse position (default)
• 1 - top left
• 2 - top hcenter
• 3 - top right
• 4 - vcenter left
• 5 - center
• 6 - vcenter rigth
• 7 - bottom left
• 8 - bottom hcenter
• 9 - bottom right

Open Settings

• Open menu > click "Settings"
• Right click tray icon > click "Settings"

Add Folder

• Open Settings
• Type full path of the folder in the text field and click "Add"
• Or
• Click "Select and Add Folder" and select a folder
• Click "Apply" or "OK" to save the settings

Add Command

• Open Settings
• Click "Add Command"
• Fill the fields
• Name: text to be displayed in the menu
• Icon: name of the icon to be displayed in menu
• Process: name of the process/executable or path to script to be executed
• Arguments: arguments to be passed to the process, use {clipboard} to get the clipboard's text
• Click "OK" to add the command
• Click "Apply" or "OK" to save the settings

Group Commands

• Open Settings
• Click "Add Menu"
• Enter a name
• Click "OK" to add the menu
• Drag commands on top of the menu
• Click "Apply" or "OK" to save the settings

Dependencies

Dependencies will be printed by cmake when building.

Build

git clone https://gitlab.com/g-fb/quickaccess
cd quickaccess
cmake -B build -G Ninja
cmake --build build
cmake --install build