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New version released: 0.4

This adds the long awaited "Run in term" and "Run as root" options. Unfortunately, the same limitations apply for Personal Menu as they do for Command Navigator.

"Run in term" creates two terminal windows (the first with two shortcut bars, the second with none) with the command running in the second.

"Run as root" requires you to have permission to run the desired command with NOPASSWD option. There are two ways to do this.

Both methods start with creating a file named:

Code:
/etc/sudoers.d/personal-menu.sudoers
For the first method, you create a blanket statement that will allow you to run ANY COMMAND AT ALL as root with no password. Insert this line in the file you just created:

Code:
user ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL
In the second, safer, option you only list the commands you are going to use in the file. The line would look something like this:

Code:
user ALL = NOPASSWD: /bin/ls, /usr/bin/whoami
After you have completed the file (and any time you update it) run:

Code:
update-sudoers
Of course, all of the above needs to be done as root.

Also new in this release:
- Settings backup and restore
- Selecting installed applications or icons now sorts alphabetically for easier selection.

I have four new Maemo projects I am going to start working on (some small, some big) so I might not get around to adding more features to this program for a while. If anyone points out a bug I will try to fix it quickly.
 

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