Gnome Top Bar Custom Menu Extension

Custom menu for Gnome Top Bar with your favorite program shortcuts, commands and scripts.

Usage:

• Edit .entries.json to match your needs
• Copy .entries.json file to $HOME/

If you edit .entries.json while running gnome please ensure to reload Gnome Session (Alt+F2, "r")
Tested on Gnome v42-44. The guide below describes available options. In the examples directory you can see some tests you can pick for your setup.

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Guide

Here are some examples you can use with this extension:

- Launcher

Create a new entry and put it in the menu

    {
      "type": "launcher",
      "title": "Item Name on Menu",
      "command": "/your/command/to/execute --with-parameters"
    },

- Separator

Place a menu separator (<hr>)

    {
      "type": "separator"
    },

- SubMenu

Create a submenu inside current menu, items inside the submenu are placed inside entries and they can be of any type (launcher, separator, submenu, ...)

    {
        "type": "submenu",
        "title": "Menu Name",
        "entries": [
            //... Place your entries here ...//
        ]
    },

- Toggler

Create a toggle item on menu, it has a detector and ON|OFF commands. Command detector can be activated|deactivated by a 0 (success) return error level and later detected with a plain JavaScript eval.

    {
      "type": "toggler",
      "title":       "Widget Title",
      "command_on":  "/command/when/turned/on",
      "command_off": "/command/when/turned/off",
      "detector":    "/command/detector > /dev/null && echo yes"
    },