This repo contains a wrapper around wmenu(1), inspired by Nathaniel Maia's
wmenu_drun script
(https://forum.archlabslinux.com/t/a-desktop-file-scrubber-and-launcher-for-dmenu/1008),
and Tom van Dijk's dmenu_drun program (https://github.com/dtomvan/dmenu_drun).
It also shows .desktop files, similar to rofi. You could see it as suckless
rofi. This is not a rewrite of WMenu in Rust. WMenu is fast enough by itself,
and there are already some excellent patches to really make it your own.
Speed. I changed the original script to use the .desktop files title.
That slowed the script down by a lot. It takes .5 seconds to load, which is not
enough for me as a full-time rofi user to make the switch. Rofi is almost
instantaneous, because of the caching it performs. dmenu_path also caches,
which makes it start up very fast. I cannot use stest though, because I need a
key-value storage (title → desktop filename).
There are some quirks in .desktop files, it's easier to shell out to gtk. Most people have it installed anyway.
Dependencies:
- rustc 1.59.0-nightly (e012a191d 2022-01-06)
- wmenu
- gtk-launch (in gtk3) (optional: for desktop files) Install dependencies using:
sudo pacman -S rustup wmenu gtk3
rustup toolchain install nightly-2022-01-06NOTE: pacman commands only work on Arch Linux, find the appropriate commands
for your distro in your distro's documentation. Windows and Mac aren't
supported, as WMenu doesn't work on those OSes.
Install using:
git clone https://github.com/denisdubochevalier/wmenu_drun
cargo install --path wmenu_drunJust call wmenu_drun.
Use -d to exclude desktop files (if you didn't install gtk-launch).
Use -p to exclude $PATH.
By default, both desktop files and $PATH are enabled.
Maybe in the future I will include these features:
-l [lang]flag for localization.
Localization in desktop files works as follows:
- Use the user's locale from $LANG (the one in your /etc/locale.conf)
This locale will be used to find localized names (if possible) in the
.desktop file.
See also: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s05.html