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Verve
About
The Verve panel plugin is a comfortable command line plugin for the Xfce panel. It supports several nice features, such as:
- Command history
- Auto-completion (including command history)
- Open URLs and eMail addresses in your favourite applications
- Focus grabbing via D-BUS (so you can bind a shortcut to it)
- Custom input field width
Usage
Once added to the panel, you can use the following keys to control Verve:
TAB
to iterate through auto-completion entriesUP
andDOWN
arrows to iterate through the command historyCTRL+ENTER
to run a command in a terminal emulatorESC
to clear your input
If you want to launch URLs or eMail addresses using Verve, just paste them into the input field and press ENTER
.
Focus Grabbing
Verve installs a script named verve-focus
which can be used to bind a keyboard shorcut for Verve to grab the focus. To do so, you first need to open the Xfce settings manager:
xfce-setting-show
Once the dialog has appeared, chose Keyboard. In the next dialog, select the Shortcuts tab and add a shortcut for verve-focus
.
After this, Verve should grab the focus and start blinking whenever you press this shortcut. To stop the blinking, just type something (like a command or something else) or click on it with the mouse.
Screenshots
Verve in normal state
Verve blinking after grabbing the focus
Auto-completion
Config dialog
Recent Releases
1.0.0 (pending)
- Translated into 7 more languages, for a total of 37, 36 of which are full translations
- Fix compatibility with xfce 4.8
Recent Changes
- Update COPYING (2022/03/17 17:30)
- I18n: Update translation es (100%). (2021/05/22 12:49)
- I18n: Update translation es (100%). (2021/05/16 00:48)
- I18n: Update translation es (100%). (2021/05/08 12:50)
- I18n: Update translation es (100%). (2021/05/08 00:48)
Reporting Bugs
Bugs should be reported to the Xfce bug tracking system.
Open Bugs
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Getting it
The normal (and best) way to get this plugin is to use the package manager or port system of your operating system.
If it isn't available there, or if you want a different version, you can download it in source form from http://archive.xfce.org/src/panel-plugins/xfce4-verve-plugin/.