#!/usr/bin/env bash # terminal application launcher for sway, using fzf # Based on: https://gitlab.com/FlyingWombat/my-scripts/blob/master/sway-launcher HIST_FILE="${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}/sway-launcher-history.txt" DIRS=( /usr/share/applications ~/.local/share/applications /usr/local/share/applications ) GLYPH_COMMAND=" " GLYPH_DESKTOP=" " touch "$HIST_FILE" # Filter DIRS array for directories that actually exist. Append *.desktop to remaining elements for i in "${!DIRS[@]}" ; do [[ ! -d "${DIRS[i]}" ]] && unset -v 'DIRS[$i]' || DIRS[$i]="${DIRS[i]}/*.desktop" ; done DIRS=("${DIRS[@]}") HIST_FILE_CONTENT=$(< "$HIST_FILE") function createPreview(){ DESCRIPTION='No description' if [[ $2 == 'command' ]]; then TITLE=$1 DESCRIPTION=$(whatis -l "$1" 2>/dev/null | head -n1 | sed -n -e 's/^.*\(.*\).*\-//p') else TITLE=$(cat $1 | grep ^Name= | head -n1 | awk -F= '{print $2}') DESCRIPTION=$(grep Comment= "$1" | awk -F= '{print $2}') fi echo -e "\033[33m $TITLE \033[0m" echo "$DESCRIPTION" } export -f createPreview FZFPIPE=$(mktemp) # Append Launcher History, removing usage count (echo "$HIST_FILE_CONTENT" | sed -n -e 's/^[0-9]* //p' >> "$FZFPIPE" )& # Load and append Desktop entries (grep -roP "Type=Application" ${DIRS[@]} | awk -F : '{print $1}' | sort -u | xargs -d "\n" grep -oP "(?<=Name=).*" | awk -F : -v pre="$GLYPH_DESKTOP" '{print $1 "|desktop|\033[33m" pre "\033[0m" $2}' >> "$FZFPIPE" )& # Load and append command list ({ IFS=:; ls -H $PATH; } | grep -v '/.*' | sort -u | awk -v pre="$GLYPH_COMMAND" '{print $1 "|command|\033[31m" pre "\033[0m" $1 }' >> "$FZFPIPE" )& COMMAND_STR=$( (tail -f "$FZFPIPE" & echo $! > pid) | fzf +x +s -d '\|' --nth ..3 --with-nth 3.. --preview 'createPreview {1} {2}' --preview-window=up:3:wrap --ansi ; kill -9 "$( "$HIST_FILE" command='echo "nope"' case $(echo "$COMMAND_STR" | awk -F'|' '{print $2}') in desktop) file=$(echo "$COMMAND_STR" | awk -F '|' '{print $1}') command=$(cat $file | grep Exec | awk -F'=' '{print $2}') ;; command) command=$(echo "$COMMAND_STR" | awk -F '|' '{print $1}') ;; esac swaymsg -t command exec "$command"