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BenniTec

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Registered: 2020-09-11

Posts: 24

Xfce: Is there a way to do math on the whisker menu?

Since I switched from Windows a few years ago it always annoyed me that I couldn't type mathematical expressions in the search bar and get a result.
I looked in the settings menu and couldn't find any setting to enable it.
Also I duckduckgo'd a little bit and couldn't find any answer.

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Xfce: Is there a way to do math on the whisker menu?

Are you only looking for a whisker menu solution?  I've never used that launcher, but many others can certainly (be configured to) do this including dmenu, rofi, and interrobang.

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progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,321

Re: Xfce: Is there a way to do math on the whisker menu?

I don't think whisker can do that seamlessly. It should be possible to define a search action that will call a bash script to calculate and then display the result in a message box / xosd / notification /...

Last edited by progandy (2020-10-12 22:20:23)

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toz

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Registered: 2011-10-28

Posts: 513

Re: Xfce: Is there a way to do math on the whisker menu?

Or you can use the xfce4-calculator-plugin.

zebus3d

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Registered: 2022-08-25

Posts: 1

Re: Xfce: Is there a way to do math on the whisker menu?

You can add this Search Action in Whisker Menu Properties:

Name: Calculator
Pattern: ^([0-9]*[\/\+\-\*][0-9]*)*$
Command: sh -c 'python -c "print(eval(str(\0)))" | zenity --text-info --title="Result Calculator" --width=50 --height=5'
Regular Expression: On

Last edited by zebus3d (2022-08-25 11:40:49)

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,648

Re: Xfce: Is there a way to do math on the whisker menu?

Thanks for the contribution, but this thread is two years old and the OP has not been back since February.

Closing.