dnd

Bi-directional drag and drop source / target

Key features:

• Run dnd without arguments and blank window with target area appears
• Run dnd with arguments, e.g. dnd file1.txt file2.html, dnd * or pipe into it like find . -name "*.txt" | dnd file2.html and window with both drag and drop source files & target area appears
• Configure default options (flags) in dnd.cfg file located in the same directory as the executable or ~/.config/dnd/dnd.cfg. (after installation) so you dont have to type them every time
• Save different setting presets in dnd.cfg and switch between them by running the program like dnd --preset=Alt
• Run dnd --help to see all options or look at usage below
• You can quit by hitting Esc or Q key also

Requirements

• GTK+ 3

Build Requirements

• GTK+ 3 dev packages
• Nim compiler 1.6.12 - e.g. use choosenim 1.6.12 (compilation with newer versions unfortunately fails due to isuue in gintro and/or Nim compiler itself)
• gintro (automatically downloaded via nimble)

Getting Started

You can install it via 2 methods:

• Manual (Makefile) - Nim not required (when not building)
• Nim's package manager nimble

Manual (Makefile)

Download the latest release and unpack it to a folder (tar -zxf FILENAME)

To install:

make install

To uninstall:

make uninstall

• dnd executable is installed to ~/.local/bin/dnd
• dnd.cfg is installed to ~/.config/dnd/dnd.cfg
• Desktop entry is installed to ~/.local/share/applications/dnd.desktop
• Icon dnd.xpm is installed to ~/.local/share/icons/dnd.xpm

Nimble

nimble install dnd

• dnd symlink is installed to ~/.nimble/bin/dnd and executable to ~/.nimble/pkgs/dnd-VERSION/dnd
• dnd.cfg is installed to ~/.nimble/pkgs/dnd-VERSION/dnd.cfg
• Desktop entry is installed to ~/.local/share/applications/dnd.desktop - nimble uninstall dnd cannot remove it automatically?
• Icon dnd.xpm is installed to ~/.nimble/pkgs/dnd-VERSION/resources/dnd.xpm

Usage

dnd - bi-directional drag and drip source / target
Usage: dnd [options] [file...]
  -a,       --all=true           Drag all files at once
  -k,       --keep=true          Keep dropped files in for a drag out
  -t,       --top=true           Keep the program window always on top
  -c,       --center-mouse=true  Center the program on the mouse
  -C,       --center-screen=true Center the program in the middle of the screen
  -f=NAME,  --cfg=NAME           Load a different config file
  -p=NAME,  --preset=NAME        Load different preset from config file
  -d,       --decorated=true     Let the program window be decorated by the window manager
  -o=FLOAT, --opacity=FLOAT      Change the program window opacity
  -v,       --version            Show version info
  -h,       --help               Show this message

Presets in current loaded dnd.cfg file:
  [Default]
  w = 200 # Width
  h = 200 # Height
  keep = false
  always_on_top = true
  center_mouse = false
  center_screen = true
  decorated = true
  opacity = 1.0

Examples

• dnd - shows a blank dnd window with drag-and-drop area, drag media into it and an URL/URI address is printed to stdout
• dnd * - shows a drag area for every file in the folder and drop area at the bottom
• dnd . - shows a drag area for the current folder and drop area at the bottom
• dnd file1 file2 - shows a drag area for file1, file2 and drop area at the bottom
• find . -name "*.txt" | dnd file2.html - shows a drag area for file.html, every file output by the pipe (every txt file in current folder and subfolders) and drop area at the bottom
• dnd | while read url; do wget "$url"; done - drag media from browser (a picture) into dnd drop area, it captures the URL address and uses wget to download the media to current folder (also in examples/dnd_wget.sh)

Thanks

Thanks to mwh and his dragon for inspiration and Dr. Stefan Salewski for help with GTK and gintro.

License

GNU GPL version 3