StartDesktop

https://youtu.be/1oY9ofjH2_o?si=xMFzPlkSeqHFyZdK

Current Features - StartDesktop Browser Control

Test our Star tDesktop Browser Control:

 http://me2pc.com/index.php/start-desktop-user-interface

Test our Start Desktop - Powered by JavaScript:

 http://bobbycooper.net 

Start Desktop User Interface

-Search for any button

-Export / Import Changes made to buttons to xml file - downloaded.

-10 tabs containing 10 buttons each (100 total buttons)

-Bulk Edit: Modify button names in bulk, up to 100

-Inline Edit “Pencil” of button link

-Drag & Drop moving of buttons on same page

-Switch from Light to Dark theme

StartDesktop Process

Video on youtube: https://youtu.be/0cKoVyqZNIc?si=SaL95AqwEb2G3bzj

Execute commands, launch programs and open websites from browser on any X-Windows desktop.

You can also use our StartDesktop Process to turn a html webpage(s) into Graphical User interface “GUI” for any bash powered program. And so much more. Now, creating a custom GUI is much easier than ever before using our new Linking and Browser Command Execution process.

The complete StartDesktop process is very easy to implement, customize and to use.

The StartDesktop process consists of 2 separate parts

A. X-Windows x-scheme-handlers registrasion of “linuxapps” <–linuxapps:// (just once) .

A. A single html / css / Client Side JavaScirpt Webpage (with our special malformed hybrid prefix-hyperlink urls) Launch VLC) “vlc” –>

C. Desktop Launcher “linuxApps.deskop” - Exec=/home/linux/linuxApp.sh %u - MimeType=x-scheme-handler/linuxapps;) %u=”vlc” –>

B. 100% bash listener socat webserver shell script.

C. Shell Script “linuxApps.sh” - %u=”vlc” –> linuxApps.sh –> vlc program is launched.

###what can be dropped in to a button and then executed with a single click

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1. Multiple apt commands with chaining: http://192.168.207.133:9000/launch/sudo_“sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y”

2. GUI dialog + system commands: http://192.168.207.133:9000/launch/bash_“yad –question –text=’Proceed?’; sudo apt-get update; xdg-open ‘https://deepseek.com’”

3. Complex scripting with variables: http://192.168.207.133:9000/launch/bash_“for i in {1..5}; do echo "Count: $i"; sleep 1; done”

4. Multi-line commands with semicolons: http://192.168.207.133:9000/launch/bash_“cd /tmp; mkdir test; touch test/file.txt; ls -la test/”

5. Conditional execution: http://192.168.207.133:9000/launch/bash_“which firefox && firefox || echo ‘Firefox not installed’”

6. Background processes: http://192.168.207.133:9000/launch/bash_“nautilus &; gnome-calculator &”

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• Use double quotes around the entire command: prefix_“your command here” • Multiple commands: separate with ; or && or || • Escape inner double quotes with backslash: " • Query parameters (?_cb=xxx) are automatically stripped

🔧 PREFIXES: bash_ - Opens terminal window, runs commands (no sudo) sudo_ - Prompts for password, runs with elevated privileges (none) - Runs silently in background

✨ Features: yad dialogs, command chaining, variables, conditionals, loops ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Linux Webtop Installer script will:

• Extract system username and insert it in to Desktop Launcher and creates “linuxApp.desktop” file.

• Configure x-sheme-handlers associating linuxapps to the linuxApp.desktop Desktop Launcher.

• Copies Desktop Launcher “linuxApp.desktop” to required system directories and to your Desktop.

• Makes all Desktop Launchers executable.

• Updates mime database and registers protocal “linuxapps:// in x-scheme-handles system.

• Copies Dispatcher File “linuxApp.sh” to ~/linuxApp.sh”

• Tests to see if x-scheme-handlers associaton and update was successful and reports status

• Provides test code you can use to see StartDesktop is functioning properly.

The StarDesktop Process:

1. Register Custom url linuxapps:// in X-Windows x-scheme-handlers and associate it to “linuxapps”

• Using the standard X-Windows built-in x-scheme-handlers registraton process we associate “linuxapps” to a single Desktop Laucher “linuxApps.desktop”. x-scheme-handlers are used by the X-Windows system to properly handle traditional url links like: http / https / ftp and our custom url link: linuxapps:// .

**2. Create the custom Desktop Launcher, copy to system directories and make them all executable.

**3. Copy Dispatcher File “linuxApp.sh” to your home directory “~/linuxApp.sh”

4. Provides base example html webpage “linuxApps.html” with examples of our custom url links:

• linuxApps.html will be located in the directory where you extracted the zip file: or in the default directory: ~/linuxApps/linuxApps.html

• Use our custom linuxapps hyperlinks like this: - Launch VLC

================================== Example code (but it will vary on your own personal needs):

Desktop Launcher - linuxApp.desktop

[Desktop Entry]

Version=1.0

Type=Application

Name=LinuxApps

Comment=Universal local apps launcher (linuxapps:// protocol - supports multiple Linux apps)

Exec=/home/linux/linuxApp.sh %U

Icon=application-x-executable

Terminal=false

Categories=Utility;

MimeType=x-scheme-handler/linuxapps;

NoDisplay=false

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Dispatcher File - linuxApp.sh

#!/bin/bash # ~/linuxApp.sh - Universal linuxapps:// handler (Debian-friendly)

URL=”$1”

# Log for debugging echo “$(date): Received: $URL” » /tmp/linuxapps.log

# Extract the ‘app’ parameter reliably (handles ? and &) APP=$(echo “$URL” | sed -E ‘s/.[?&]app=([^&?#]).*/\1/’)

if [ -z “$APP” ]; then notify-send “LinuxApps Error” “No app parameter found!\nURL: $URL” echo “ERROR: No app= parameter in $URL” >&2 exit 1 fi

case “$APP” in

vlc) exec vlc ;;

browserIDE)
    exec /production/browser-ide/launchBrowserIDE.sh ;;
    
yadEditor)
    exec /production/browser-ide/yadEditorWindow.sh ;;

 gimp)
    exec gimp ;;

terminal

konsole

xterm

gnome-terminal

lxterminal)

    exec x-terminal-emulator ;;   # works on most Debian setups
    
*)
    notify-send "LinuxApps" "Unknown app: $APP"
    
    echo "Unknown app requested: $APP" >&2
    
    exit 1
    
    ;;

esac

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html file: linuxApps.html:

Launch VLC Launch VLC Launch VLC Launch VLC

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Video on youtube: https://youtu.be/0cKoVyqZNIc?si=SaL95AqwEb2G3bzj

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