Generating Fluxbox menus for VNC (Vinagre) connections

Avi — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:05:23 +0000

One of the lovely things about Fluxbox is the text-driven menu. One of the nice things about Vinagre (Gnome's VNC client) is the xml-based bookmarks file. Here's a handy script to create a Fluxbox submenu out of your Vinagre bookmarks:

 
#! /usr/bin/perl
 
use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::Simple;
my $HOME = $ENV{ HOME };
 
my $bookmarks_file = "$HOME/.local/share/vinagre/vinagre-bookmarks.xml";
my $menu_file = "$HOME/.fluxbox/vnc_menu";
 
my $xml = new XML::Simple (KeyAttr=>[]);
my $data = $xml->XMLin("$bookmarks_file");
 
open(MENU, ">$menu_file") || die "Error opening \$menu_file: $menu_file $0";
 
print MENU "[begin]\n";
 
foreach my $b(@{$data->{"item"}}){
	print MENU "[exec] ($b->{name}) {vinagre $b->{host}:$b->{port}}\n";
}
print MENU "[end]\n";
close MENU;

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Generating Fluxbox menus for VNC (Vinagre) connections