Arronax¶

Arronax as standalone application¶

Arronax as standalone application can be started just like any other application using the application menu or application search function of your desktop environment.

From the command line you can start it using the command:

arronax

Arronax as file manager plugins¶

There are Arronax plugins for the file managers Caja, Nautilus, and Nemo.

The plugins add a menu item “Create starter for this file” or “Create a starter for this program” to the context menu (that’s the menu you get when you right-click a file in the file manager). If the file is a application starter you get an item “Modify this starter” instead.

If your desktop supports it Arronax adds a menu item “Create starter” to your desktop’s context menu.

Drag & Drop¶

Arronax supports Drag&Drop

• You can drag an icon for example from the Unity Dash or the Gnome Classic application menu and drop it on an open Arronax window. Don’t drop it on one of the input fields in the Arronax window but on the free space beneath the icon.

• You can drag files from the file manager and other applications and drop them on the input area in the “MIME types” tab to add the corresponding MIME types to the list. This will add every MIME type only once, even if you add multiple files with the same MIME type.

• You can drag image files from the file manager or other applications and drop them on the icon selector at the left of the Arronax window to use that image as icon for the starter. It is up to you tom take care that the image has the right size.

• You can drag a file or folder from the file manager or a URL from your web browser and drop it on the “Command”, “Start in Folder” or “File or URL” input area to use the corresponding file path.

Getting the window class from a window¶

Starting with v0.8.0 you can get the window class from a window by clicking on the window. This only works in a X11 session (it doesn’t work with e.g. Wayland) and needs GTK 3.20 or later. Arronax still works without this feature, you’ll just get an error message if you try to select the window class.

PPA¶

Arronax is available from the PPA (“Personal Package Archive”) ppa:diesch/stable for all current versions of Ubuntu. If you add this PPA to your software sources Ubuntu’s Update manager will automatically install newer versions of Arronax when they are available. If you don’t know how to do this see this explanation.

Depending on how busy the Launchpad build servers are it may take a few hours for the PPA to get new packages after a release.

Files¶

If you rather want to download the files manually here there are:

Source code¶

The source code is available from the repository at Lauchpad.