Difference between revisions of "Worker - An Introduction"

Even though Worker comes with inbuilt text & image viewing abilities, I prefer to set Worker up to use more powerful external programs. So for viewing images, I use Geegie. By associating Geegie with the various types of images available (using the Worker Configuration GUI), when I double click on an image file in the Worker display, Geegie displays it for me (you could set different image types to be opened by different image viewing or editing programs if you had the need).

I can then scroll through all of the images in that directory with my mouse wheel, or tell Geegie to go full screen & play a slide show of the images, or do whatever else Geegie will allow me to do with any of the images in that directory.

If I RMB click on the '''F3 - Show Pics''' button (yes you can easily set up function keys too), instead of calling Geegie, I see Edit Pics (the RMB buttons are all in different colours than the top LMB accessed buttons) & if I have an image file highlighted in Worker, then Pinta (my choice, you can use whatever image editor you wanted to) will open up with the highlighted file ready for me to edit.

For example, I use Evince for .pdf files, Firefox for .html files, Leafpad for .txt & unknown files, I have sudo Leafpad buttons for both creating '''New''' files & of course to work on existing files. So I can select a config file in say the /etc & then use the Worker '''sudo Leafpad''' button on it, which will cause Worker to throw up a terminal window where I have to input my sudo password, then the config file from /etc will be available for me to edit & then save the changes.

You can of course call programs from the buttons that have nothing to do with any of the files in your Worker display. You can run scripts, simple or complex from a button, as normal user or with root privileges. It is up to your imagination &/or needs, to do what you want to do with Worker.