abiosoft/launchar

minimal GTK application launcher

launchar

Minimal GTK application launcher.

Use cases

• Some Linux desktops limit application launcher to primary display. Pin to a multi-screen dock (or assign it a shortcut key) and it launches on current display.
• Alternative launcher for Tiling window managers.

Screenshot

Build from source

$ meson --prefix=/usr build
$ cd build
$ sudo ninja install

Build Dependencies

Arch

$ sudo pacman -S gtk3 vala meson ninja libgee

Ubuntu

$ sudo apt install libgtk-3-dev libgee-0.8-dev valac meson ninja-build

Fedora

$ sudo dnf install gtk3-devel vala meson ninja-build libgee-devel

Configure

Configure instructions are available in CONFIGURE.md.

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launchar's Issues

Publishing a release

As I understand it this program is no longer in development, hopefully this issue can still be resolved.
I think it would be beneficial to publish a release here on github. It would make it easier to package this sofware for many distros and requires no changes. I am currently trying to submit a package to the voidlinux repos here.

Question about your code

I really like the launcher that you made. Right now, I am making my own. However, I want to know how you alphabetized the entries in Launchar. I am trying to understand the code, but it is kind of hard, since I have never used classes in my whole life.

On C, I tried making a for loop to print the display names of each .desktop file (for my app launcher, I just created a button instead of printing):

GList *l;
while (l = g_app_info_get_all(), l != NULL, l = l->next){
    printf("%s\n", g_app_info_get_display name())
}

However, I do not get results in alphabetical order, while Launchar does. Do you know how to alphabetize the entries? I am thinking of storing everything in a 2D char array, then sorting it. Is that what you did?