Pipe Menus KDE4

For many years, I used Fluxbox as my window manager. I made the switch to KDE around the time 4.2 was released. One of the things I missed most was the pipe menu in fluxbox. When KDE 4.4 was released, I found out that you can have the pipe menu functionality in KDE. To enable it, you need to go to your Desktop Settings (right click the desktop) and select Mouse Actions. Next, set your right button to Application Launcher. You also may want to do as I have and add another action to set shift + right mouse button to use the Standard Menu.

When KDE 4.5 was released, the Application Menu was synchronized with the KDE start menu. Finally I could get rid of the start menu, but I still need to add a menu entry for shutdown/logoff and one for run. Using kmenuedit, I created a Leave button using the following command:

qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer org.kde.KSMServerInterface.logout 1 -1 -1

For Run, I used the following command:

qdbus org.kde.krunner /App display

For both items, you will want make sure "Enable launch feedback" is unchecked.