Command line
With no arguments, PerchBar is the resident tray application. The rest of these exist because something else needs them — a pinned shortcut, a script, or you.
--group id | opens that group and exits. This is what a pinned shortcut runs. |
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--group id --member n | activates or starts member n of that group. This is what a Jump List entry runs. |
--group id --view | shows the group view even when the group has members ticked under Opens. |
--groups | opens the Groups dialog without the tray icon, and tells a running PerchBar to reload afterwards. |
--new-group | the same, with a new group ready to name. |
--settings | opens the global Hotkeys dialog the same way. |
--make-shortcuts | rewrites every group's shortcuts, including the
pinned copies. Use it after moving PerchBar.exe. |
--about | the About box on its own. |
--quiet | suppresses message boxes, so a script is never left waiting on one. |
A group's id is not its name: it is a short slug allocated when the group is
created and never changed, because it is part of the identity a pinned button carries. You can read
it from the section headings in Groups.ini.
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