Pandora Pandora Scripts


CyberLeo

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Who is it that maintains the Pandora scripts for things like auto-mounting SD cards? I have a few patches that I maintain locally that I think may be useful to a wider audience, but would like to discuss how the features might be made more general.

Namely, I have a patch that alters the behaviour of the Pandora button to launch xfrun4 instead (since I have my taskbar auto-hide, which thwarts the default behaviour), and a patch that reads mount options from a file on the SD card upon automount (to turn off dirsync on my ext4-formatted SD cards, since the journal obviates the need for this).

Thanks!
 
That's me :)


Does your Pandora-Button solution open the menu and close it again on second press? :)
 
Does your Pandora-Button solution open the menu and close it again on second press? :)
You ask this every time, but I've been using the Pandora button to run "xfdesktop --menu" for years without ever seeing a duplicate menu, and I've indicated such on a number of occasions.
 
Does your Pandora-Button solution open the menu and close it again on second press? :)
You ask this every time, but I've been using the Pandora button to run "xfdesktop --menu" for years without ever seeing a duplicate menu, and I've indicated such on a number of occasions.
But that's doesn't open the application menu but the right-click menu and it also appears where your mouse is and not in the top-left corner (which I find pretty annoying, no idea how it's for others)
 
But that's doesn't open the application menu but the right-click menu and it also appears where your mouse is and not in the top-left corner (which I find pretty annoying, no idea how it's for others)
Fair comment, but it's not really the same thing though.
 
That's me :)

Does your Pandora-Button solution open the menu and close it again on second press? :)
Nope. Mine brings up the 'Run' dialogue. I'm more text-oriented, so it's a lot more comfortable for me to just type what I want as opposed to menu-down-down-down-down-down-right-down-down-enter or having to pop out the stylus. It's one of the reasons I love this device and its keyboard so much.

I was looking for feedback as to how best to make the action more configurable: default to clicking on the menu, so as not to change the existing behaviour, but the presence of a file in /etc (or a config option somewhere else) causes it to launch a different program or script instead.

As for the mount-options patch, I was wondering if anyone knew of any possible security problems available in the options passed to mount. At the moment, my patch just reads a file (.mount.opts) on the filesystem in question and, if present, uses its contents as the argument to the -o option. A cursory search didn't turn up any possibility of exploits or other overtly damaging behaviour triggerable by mount options alone, but that doesn't mean the possibility does not exist.

Thanks!
 
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gog don't seem to care about linux at all.... but if they have anything that can be emulated or have the data pulled from it - Might make sense

I posted this in the wrong thread... MODS please delete.
 
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