mb-applet-launcher(1)

💖 mb-applet-launcher — the manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is mb-applet-launcher(1) from the General Commands Manual and it's literally the little panel applet that launches your apps. icon energy. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

mb-applet-launcher — an application launcher panel applet 🚀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

mb-applet-launcher [options] [action] image_file application

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so. mb-applet-launcher is a panel applet whose whole entire job is starting an application for you. it takes the PNG or XPM file you hand it on the command line, shows that as its icon, and the moment you click the icon — boom — the application starts. it's giving personal assistant but make it pixels. ✨

and for the lore, because i know you wanna know: Matchbox is a base environment for the X Window System that runs on non-desktop embedded platforms — think handhelds, set-top boxes, kiosks, and honestly anything else where screen space, input mechanisms or system resources are limited. tiny screen, big dreams. 💅

💜 OPTIONS 💜

• -display display — which X display to connect to 🖥️
• --title title — sets the title, bestie (that's the whole note, no extra lore, i'm not gonna make stuff up) 👑
• --no-animation — turn off any animations. all of them. gone. bye 👋
• --start, -s — start the application immediately, no waiting around 🔥

okay so the default action is to iconize/uniconize the selected application. cute, right? but if you want something else, you can pass other actions as command-line options:

• --kill, -k — destroy the application 💀 (yes, destroy. dramatic but accurate.)
• --respawn, -l — respawn multiple instances of the application 🔁
• --message, -m — display output from the application as a message from the panel 💬

🧚 alternatively… a .desktop file 🧚

you can also hand it a valid .desktop file instead:

• --desktop .desktop_file — heads up though: any actions given with this option will have no effect. if you want similar behaviour, you can get it by including a SingleInstance=True key pair in the .desktop file. iykyk 🫶

⚠️ real talk, bestie: options and actions do not mix here. the .desktop route wins, and your action flags just sit there doing nothing. that's not me being mean, that's just the manual. 🙈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

mb-applet-launcher was written by Matthew Allum <mallum@o-hand.com>. iconic behaviour, honestly. 🌈

and that's the whole page, fr fr — it comes from the General Commands Manual, last touched Jul 17 2004, and you already know which page you just read: mb-applet-launcher(1). slay. 💖✨🎀