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adw dock icon

I want only two icons for my dockbar with the icons being on the opposite corners. To do this, I need to set dock icons to 5 inorder to add icons to both sides. Unlike launcher pro,adw has a weird + icon to indicate nothing is assigned to that dock column. I jus want to make it transparent. Any way to do this? Thanks in advance

You have to make a shortcut to something. In desktop visualizer you can choose to "do nothing", but I think this may only be possible for widgets, not shortcuts. Just get a transparent icon and use as the icon. You can change the icon by long pressing on the shortcut on the dock then tapping the icon to change it.
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Thanks for the quick reply. Is there a way I can create a shortcut to do nothing?

Long press & select custom shortcut. Under activities choose desktop visualizer. At the bottom choose none (empty activity) or something like that. Then change to a transparent icon.
Of course you have to have it installed to do this, but it'll work
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plainjane said:
Long press & select custom shortcut. Under activities choose desktop visualizer. At the bottom choose none (empty activity) or something like that. Then change to a transparent icon.
Of course you have to have it installed to do this, but it'll work
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+1 yes this is the only way I know too

Where do I get a transperant icon? Or how do I make one?

photoshop......

jinho11050 said:
Thanks for the quick reply. Is there a way I can create a shortcut to do nothing?
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Desktop VisualizeR can help you to creat a shortcut to do nothing,but you can't drag it to the dockbar.

Home screen shortcut to widget?

Is there a way to create an icon on my home screen, that when tapped, would act as a shortcut and open up a widget, such as a calendar widget?
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Like what widget? You can add a widget to your homescreen by long press on the home screen. The menu will pop up and you can select from the widgets you have... you can also create a shortcut to any app by the same long press and selecting shortcuts...
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If you're opening up something its an activity/app not a widget. You don't open a widget a widget opens an app.

I think OP is talking about having a shortcut that applies a widget to the home screen. I find that this would be useful if you say had a backup of your homescreen. Whenever I load a backup of a homescreen configuration I had, the widgets would always say "problem loading widget." The backup only restores shortcuts and placements. So this would save you from having to delete and readd widgets.

I have 2 suggestions.
Power Strip
https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.intuitit.android.p.powerstrip&feature=search_result
or Quickdesk Beta/Pro
https://market.android.com/details?id=sg.ruqqq.quickdesk&feature=search_result
I use them both. here's a brief run down of how they each work
Power strip - it's a bar along the bottom of the screen with buttons for access to all your installed applications, shortcuts, widgets and whatever else you can figure out to put in it. i LOVE IT. It's 2 bux, but WELL worth the cost IMO. you can assign it to your home button or the hold search key (i use the home button for quick and easy access) but you can stuff as many widgets in there are you want and THEN SOME.. it's awesome! PLUS.. you can set it up to launch in ANY APP. say you're in maps.. but o snaps.. you forgot to turn on the wifi.. hold search and up comes powerstrip without even leaving maps.. you have your settings widget on the bar.. open it up.. tap the wifi button. slap the back key to exit powerstrip and voila.
Quickdesk - think if it as ONE of the panels from you homescreen. It's just one page that you can put widgets on.. on shortcoming... no scrolling widgets with this one. but likewise it can be accessed anywhere without leaving whatver app you're in.
These are both GREAT choices and i use them both... powerstrip is DEFINITELY the more flexible of the two though.

mmapcpro said:
Is there a way to create an icon on my home screen, that when tapped, would act as a shortcut and open up a widget, such as a calendar widget?
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Ok just to confirm, a lot Widgets CANNOT be activated without being as widgets on the main screen. However, in launcher pro (not sure about other launchers), if you hard press and select "shortcuts">"application" then select the widgets (if u see any) that u like. It will also give u an option to customize the icon of your choice. This is one way to activate a widget by simply clicking the icon. Hope I helped.
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How to set shortcuts?

Is there any way to set shortcuts to settings like in GB???? With stock launcher

For bookmarks you can long press them in the bookmark screen and there is an option to add short cut to home
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djwyman said:
For bookmarks you can long press them in the bookmark screen and there is an option to add short cut to home
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No way for settings shortcuts?

In your widget screens there is one that says settings shortcut. Same goes for contacts as well.
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You probably want to set widgets on your homescreen, if so you no longer have to longpress on homescreen to add widget rather than open appdrawer and choose widgets from the menu above.
Hope this helped.

in stock GB launcher (well any launcher) long pressing an empty place would bring up an option labeled shortcuts. In that there was a bunch of options.....and toward the end you would see "settings" in that there was things like wifi settings and battery usage etc.
Is there a way to find those?

Found what I was looking for thanks guys
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donsh00tmesanta said:
Found what I was looking for thanks guys
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what do you find? and where?

In widgets once I try to drag the settings icon in there I get options of data use etc
That's what I was looking for
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Customize quick launch action

Hey guys,
In Honeycomb the Applications settings had an option to customize the quick launch action that's set by default to screenshot (fourth button on the notification bar). This is no longer there on the new tabs. Any ideas of it's still possible to do that from elsewhere?
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[Q] Disable Persistent Search Bar uXYLON Nightlies

I haven't been able to disable the persistent search bar. I disabled Google Search, but that left a grey rectangle at the top of the screen. Any clues would be appreciated.

Is this everywhere or just home screen or what?
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Its the launcher. Just use nova like I do.
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