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[jemimah]

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.

[aragon]

[aragon]

coudn't resist...

EDITED for Version 0.2, as it is a 'rewrite'.

so here is awrun, a wrapper that gives you awmenu with a list of all *.desktop-files in /usr/share/applications.

we do no longer need symlinks (v. 0.2 up) as we create the list on runtime (using code examples by jemimah, THANKS VERY MUCH).

"awrun" will run awmenu with your list.

so for regular use you might want to assign a keyboard-shortcut to "awrun".

issues (so far):
- i don't know why awmenu displays an entry with 2 columns (see pic). but maybe jemimah has a simple answer... (solved in this version: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=395981#395981)

EDIT:
2010.03.03 update to 0.2 rewrite
2010.03.01 update to 0.1.1 Small bugfix

[jemimah]

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.

Also I'm experimenting with adding browser bookmarks to the list, and files in your home directory (this may need an index depending on size). Perhaps it needs a Gui for specifying which directories to search for files.

Then assign awrun to Alt-space and you've got the perfect lightweight launcher for Puppy. I was thinking of calling it Fetch. Is that name already taken?

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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.

[aragon]

[jemimah]

All my dmenu scripts are indexing too, but I discovered Rox can open .desktop files so non-indexing is easier than I originally thought.

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.

[amigo]

Just a suggestion -that fetch doesn't sound like the right name to me... That name is already used for at least one downloader. I really like aewmenu and have used it to provide pop-up menus for several AppDirs before. Can anyone figure out how to get icons working for it?

[jemimah]

Any name suggestions? - preferably dog related... Rover maybe..

I don't think it would be hard to add icons, I was thinking of attempting it. The question is, how would that affect performance? Could I still pass it 10000 items and expect it to work?

[aragon]

[DMcCunney]

[seaside]

Some more stuff to play with....

Most-Used caching (cobbled together from something I saw in the Arch forum and added code) Puts most often used commands at the top of the list and contains all binaries in the path.

[smokey01]

I like your name of Fetch but to Puppyise it why not just call it Pfetch.

[jemimah]

Here it is with the second column removed. I also centered it like Launchy.

[8-bit]

aragon,
On running awrun -r, although it works, I get a "line 97 to many arguments"
It took me a little while just to determine how to make awmenu work from a command line on a chosen directory.
The instructions on use left a little to be desired for awmenu.
But now I know how it works.

Thank you for awrun. It helped!

[jemimah]

Here's what I'm working on for Puppeee which has Chrome and Claws. This will allow you to select from applications, bookmarks, contacts, and files in your home directory.