@RadAd, I've just took a look at your github page and there's interesting things there
Especially "MiniExplorer" : https://github.com/RadAd/MiniExplorer
What would be great with this one is to be able to pass arguments the app, like:
- Set startup folder
- Set View
- Set background color
- Ability to open subfolders with the default file browser
I was intending MiniExplorer to b something like Fences. Starting the app always shows your registered list of Folders. I wasn't really sure how to handle opening just any folder.
It does currently support the command line argument to open a folder:
RadAd wrote: ↑March 29th, 2022, 11:53 pmI was intending MiniExplorer to b something like Fences. Starting the app always shows your registered list of Folders. I wasn't really sure how to handle opening just any folder.
Yes !
That's exactly what I've thought about
RadAd wrote: ↑March 29th, 2022, 11:53 pmIt does currently support the command line argument to open a folder:
Great plugin! Two questions:
1. To make things simpler - how to adjust the ini file to only show the name of the desktop? (I tried and failed.)
2. Then, can plugin track the most recent desktop number? Then, a "back" button can be added to the interface.
As for a back button, that sounds like something you could do in the skin. Use two variables CurrentDesktop and BackDesktop and in the OnUpdateAction copy CurrentDesktop into BackDesktop and update CurrentDesktop to the new desktop.
Here is a skin I use for now, it shows the max CPU temperature from CoreTemp, and displays the name of the virtual desk. I take this as a first step to replace Dexpot. (The first half of the config is directly taken from RadAd's post above.)
To make it work, step 1 is to install the VirtualDesktop plugin from its release page. Then, to get reasonable temperature readings instead of a constant 0, one needs to install CoreTemp and keep it running in the background. The end result looks like the following, where I park it at the bottom of my desktop over the task bar.
RadAd, super awesome, thank you for pointing me in the direction of the Windows registry.
For anyone looking for Windows 11, I made a version using Rainmeter's registry measure that just shows the name of the current desktop. https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?t=40797
I tried your plugin on both Windows 10 and 11.
On Windows 10 everything is ok and works really fine. On Windows 11 the function for getting the number of virtual desktops does not work - it says 0 (zero) no matter how much virtual desktops i've created. Do i do something wrong?