wonderfuljemimah wrote:I had the good fortune of finding this today. This is much like Dmenu, only nicer looking.
You can use this to search for anything, applications, music libraries, files. You just need to pipe a list into it, and do the right thing with the returned entry.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=71453
I fixed some memory management issues, and now it works.
I will package it with some scripts needed to make it useful when I get a chance to make them. But I'm so excited, I feel like posting this now.
i know you're better than me in these things ... it was just something, i already had. i only did some tuning...jemimah wrote:I was thinking I'd try making the script without indexing. It's probably difficult to install so many applications to slow down the script noticeably.
from browser?Also I'm experimenting with adding browser bookmarks to the list,
could be niceand files in your home directory (this may need an index depending on size).
yes, would be definitely better (if the 'door remains open' for free lists ...)Perhaps it needs a Gui for specifying which directories to search for files.
I was thinking of calling it Fetch. Is that name already taken?
yes, he seems to be back to dmenu (with vertical-patch)... search seems to be ok for me, would be nice if you could strip the 2nd column.I think the original author gave up before finishing, so I'm guessing the two columns thing is not working correctly. I will try to remove it, as I don't really care if the search function is extremely sophisticated - it seems to do the job fine as it is.
that's what i'm using with dmenu and the above script.jemimah wrote:All my dmenu scripts are indexing too, but I discovered Rox can open .desktop files so non-indexing is easier than I originally thought.
i think this will be a 'problem', if you want to cover all necessary seamonkey, firefox, opera, chrome, (midori),....As far as bookmarks go, I have Chrome, which stores them in a greppable text file. I need to experiment with the other browsers and see how they do it. I was able to successfully dump Chrome's entire History database using the sqlite3 command - but after some experimentation I think this produces to much clutter in the list, bookmarks only seems better.
SeaMonkey 1.1 and Firefox 2.X use a bookmarks.html file. 'm fairly sure Opera also uses a bookmarks.html file.jemimah wrote:As far as bookmarks go, I have Chrome, which stores them in a greppable text file. I need to experiment with the other browsers and see how they do it.
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#!/bin/sh
binaries() {
SPATH=$(IFS=:; for dir in $PATH; do echo "$dir"; done)
find $SPATH -maxdepth 1 \( -type f -o -type l \) -perm +111 -printf "%f\n"
2> /dev/null
}
DMENU="awmenu"
CACHE="$HOME/.dmenu_cache_recent"
touch $CACHE
MOST_USED=`sort $CACHE | uniq -c | sort -r | cut -c 8-`
RUN=`(echo "$MOST_USED"; binaries | grep -vxF "$MOST_USED") | $DMENU` &&
(echo $RUN; head -n 99 $CACHE) > $CACHE.$$ &&
mv $CACHE.$$ $CACHE
exec $RUN
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grep ^Name= /usr/share/applications/*.desktop |cut -d= -f2 > /tmp/list
cat /root/.config/google-chrome/Default/Bookmarks |grep url\": | cut -f4 -d\" >> /tmp/list
grep email= /root/.claws-mail/addrbook/* |cut -f6 -d\" >> /tmp/list
find /root -not -name ".*" -a -not -path "*Web-Server*" -a -not -path "*Choices*" -not -path "*Startup*" -type f | grep -v '/\.' >> /tmp/list
selection=`cat /tmp/list | awmenu`
case "$selection" in
'') exit
;;
/*) exec rox $selection
;;
*@*.*) exec rox -U mailto:$selection
;;
*://*) exec rox -U $selection
;;
esac
selection=`grep "$selection" /usr/share/applications/*.desktop |cut -f1 -d:`
if [ ! -z "$selection" ] ; then
exec rox $selection
fi
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# pwd
/root/Choices/URI
# ls -al
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-02-26 13:15 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 2010-02-26 13:13 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2010-02-26 13:15 file -> /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2010-02-26 13:14 ftp -> /usr/bin/gftp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2010-02-26 13:13 http -> /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2010-02-26 13:15 mailto -> /usr/local/bin/defaultemail
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selection=`grep "$selection" /usr/share/applications/*.desktop | grep Exec=|cut -f2 -d=` Code: Select all
selection=`grep -m 1 "$selection" /usr/share/applications/*.desktop |cut -f1 -d:` yeah line 97 is bad8-bit wrote:aragon,
On running awrun -r, although it works, I get a "line 97 to many arguments"
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elif [ ! `ls ${LKDIR}` ]it should work.elif [ ! "`ls ${LKDIR}`" ] #bugfix 0.1.1
yes, if you don't know dmenu, you're lost.It took me a little while just to determine how to make awmenu work from a command line on a chosen directory.