TazDrop Manual

SliTaz Drag N' Drop tool

TazDrop is a small window which can run in a corner of a screen and as an expanded panel and lets you Drag N' Drop any kind of content and perform an action on it. If you drop a URL to a site it will open a browser to its location, if the URL is a file (ie. tarball, ISO, PDF, etc) it will download it. It can also handle email addresses and SliTaz Packages (drop one on TazDrop and it will install it) and if you drop a folder it will create a tar.bz2 archive of it. You can even drop one of its options, try to drop: --notes

Note: This tool is separate from tazboxes since it runs permanently and has quite a few lines of code.

Auto start the DND window

To start TazDrop with your Window manager you have to put these lines in your autostart script (For Openbox: ~/.config/openbox/autostart) to have a DND window with some text:

# TazDrop Drag N' Drop handler
tazdrop --dnd &

To use an image as a DND box you can configure the image path via tazdrop.conf:

# TazDrop Drag N' Drop handler
tazdrop --dnd-image &

Misc notes