A dmenu like launcher program written in QT/QML. It can be used as a drop-in replacement for dmenu for example in i3 and other tiling window manager. There is a PKGBUILD package submitted to AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qdmenu/)
- QT 5.10+
- qt5-svg, qt5-declarative, qt5-base
- Fast & simple
- *.desktop file parsing and displaying:
- Locale aware name display if defined
- Users local and systemwide applications/ folders are merged, systemwide desktop files are overriden with the users files
- Icon display
- Desktop files with NoDisplay=true are filtered out
- Desktop files with Terminal=true are launched in the default terminal
- Searching:
- Searching filters the list on: binary name, name and comment from desktop file
- If no results are found the command is interpreted and executed as-is
- Keyboard driven:
- Escape quits
- Arrow keys move the selection
- Enter starts the given command / selected app
- Mouse also supported
This is my first public project on github, i know the code lacks comments but i think its readable. There are some coding guidelines which i tried to follow in this project, the most important ares:
- 80 column width
- 4 spaces and no tabs But theese arent mandatory either, if you contribute please try to keep your code readable and if something is not clear then put a comment on it, thnx ;)
- Config file in ~/.local/config/qdmenu/config, with config options:
- Icon / Grid item size
- Background color, text color, text background
- Custom unknown icon
- Custom binary icon
- display NoDisplay entries true/false
- display plain binaries by default true/false
- modifier keys remap
- Add modifier key for sudo/gksu/kdesu starting
- Add modifier key for switching *.desktop file listing mode ( currently implemented ) and raw binary listing mode