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 let you Drag N' Drop any kind of content and perform an action on it. If you drop an URL to a site it will open a browser to its location, if the URL is a file (tarball, ISO, PDF, etc) it will download it. It can also handle email addresses, 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 DND box, you can configure the image path via tazdrop.conf:

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

Misc notes