Hello all
I have been using dmenu lately and one of the main things I was missing from rofi, was .desktop file launching. So I wrote this, it works quite nice on my end and does the job (it’s a touch slow, might work on that).
Copy to: /usr/bin/dmenu_drun
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# parses known locations for .desktop files
# written by Nathaniel Maia, June 2018
# associative array to store paths as basename values
declare -A PATHS
# check we have required software
if ! hash awk find grep dmenu &>/dev/null; then
echo -e "ERROR: This script requires: awk find grep dmenu" && exit 1
fi
main() {
# base file name storage
local names=""
while read -r f; do
n="$(basename "$f" | awk -F'.' '{print $1}')"
names="$names
$n"
PATHS["$n"]="$f"
done <<< "$(find -L /usr/share/applications/ -type f -name '*.desktop' | sort -r)"
local ans="$(dmenu "$@" <<< "$names")"
[[ $? != 1 && -n $ans ]] && run "$ans" || return 1
}
run() {
local cmd
cmd="$(grep '^Exec' "${PATHS["$1"]}")"
cmd="${cmd/Exec=/}"
cmd="${cmd/ %*/}"
echo -e "$cmd"
{ [[ $cmd ]] && "$cmd" || return 1; }
if [[ $? != 0 ]]; then
echo "ERROR: Something went wrong when trying to run: $cmd"
return 1
fi
return 0
}
main "$@" &
exit 0
