The program reads .desktop files from path (see config), using the following entries:

• Type - Entry type: Application | Link
• Name - Entry identifier
• Exec | URL - Command to execute | URL to open
• Terminal - Whether to run in terminal

Entries can be grouped by categories using file system tree from path. For exemple, having a valid entry file in path/folder/app.desktop creates a category folder and makes app.desktop an entry of it

Config

• x: Box position on the x-axis
• y: Box position on the y-axis
• x-padding: Space between box border and text on the x-axis
• y-padding: Space between box border and text on the y-axis
• border-size: Box border size
• line-margin: Space between lines
• window-margin: Space between boxes
• max-lines: Maximum number of lines for a box (aka max-height)
• max-len: Maximum number of characters for a line (aka max-width)
• font-size: This is in fact used to set line height
• font: This is the actual font size & family to use (see xlsfonts)
• bg-color: Box background color
• fg-color: Box text color
• focus-bg-color: Selected line background color
• focus-fg-color: Selected line text color
• border-color: Box border color
• path: Path to read .desktop files from
• terminal: Terminal command to use
• shell: Shell command to use
• browser: Browser command to use
• search-engine: Search engine command to use, this is concatenated with browser

Tip

Any font can be converted to a X11 font, ask Google

Install

apt update -y
apt install -y git
apt install -y make
apt install -y gcc
apt install -y libx11-dev
mkdir -p ~/.local/src
mkdir -p ~/.local/bin
mkdir -p ~/.config

name=launcher
cd ~/.local/src
git clone https://github.com/Skalyaeve/a-linux-launcher.git $name
cd $name
make && make install

export PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH
# or ln -s $HOME/.local/bin/launcher /usr/local/bin/launcher
launcher ~/.config/launcher/config

Warning

If the process is killed (SIGKILL) or closed with something else than ESC, SIGINT, SIGTERM or SIGQUIT, you will have to remove the lockfile located at /tmp/launcher.ft.lock to rerun it