There has been interest over some considerable amount of time for a full-screen application launcher. This project ( https://github.com/libredeb/lightpad ) has recently resurrected this idea for another operating system. It also does work under budgie. Thus I have written a simple budgie applet tha…

Got it working easily, couple of minor bugs (not sure if UB or lightpad tho). No dynamic background after adding a jpg file to usr/share/lightpad/picture.jpg (needed to be added as root, if thats any help) Slight bit of lag when starting up application (probably a lightpad issue, don’t know if the…

Great - thanks for the feedback. All three are lightpad issues. Dynamic background should be in v0.0.7 of lightpad which we are using. So please raise a query upstream on the lightpad project. The lag issue I have raised on the lightpad issue tracker since I believe lightpad should be initialis…

[image] HackintoshwithUbuntu: No dynamic background after adding a jpg file to usr/share/lightpad/picture.jpg (needed to be added as root, if thats any help) Having re-read the upstream README I think the name in /usr/share/lightpad should be either background.jpg or background.png

Interesting. May such a layout be used for showing ⋅ recent files ( maybe using tracker ), ⋅ recent visited places, ⋅ last 6 or 10 app’s used ( if not already pinned / favorited in dock or panel ) ? Another app-menu adds no new useful feature - it’s just aesthetic, and yes it matters - whereas…

Those thoughts should be added to the lightpad issue tracker.

[ not an issue ] Can the lightpad layout be used for showing many kinds of « recent activities » ? opened 05:13PM - 25 Jun 20 UTC (UTC) [Coeur-Noir] Coeur-Noir Hi, Li…

Yes, the image fix seems to have worked. Thanks for raising the lag issue, that seems like a suitable solution. Found a new issue, I think this one is definitely lightpad. Currently I have chromium open taking up the whole screen (not F11 full screen). When I hit super, lightpad opens, only behind …

There shouldn’t be any differences. In backports we use the package created by the lightpad author.

What I like to see; is categories. When you have 30+ games installed and a dozen apps as well it’s tedious not to have it categorized. My two cents

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fossfreedom June 26, 2020, 9:20pm 11

Please raise that on the lightpad issue tracker.

Thx

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