MenuVroom

Bare bones app launcher. I've made it as a replacement for dmenu on i3, but it can work in other desktop environments as well.

Build steps:

1. Clone repo
2. Run cargo build --release
3. Create keybinding

bindsym $mod+m exec /path/to_project/target/release/menuvroom

Config

Example config (place it in ~/.config/menuvroom). All values are optional.

{
  "extra_directories": [
    "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin",
    "/usr/share/applications",
    "/home/user/.local/share/applications"
  ],
  "ignored_directories": [
    "/usr/local/games"
  ],
  // Will automatically create a file called `executables.txt`
  "cache_dir": "~/.cache/menuvroom", // This is where it defaults if not provided

  // If set to false will not include binaries that it finds
  "include_binaries": true, // default true
  // If set to false will not include desktop files that it finds
  "include_desktop_files": true, // default true

  "window_width": 1000,
  "window_height": 600,
  "window_pos_x": 30,
  "window_pos_y": 100,

  "font_size": 30,
  "line_height": 42,
  // Values must be between 0 and 255
  "font_color": {
    "r": 0, "g": 255, "b": 0
  },
  // Values must be between 0 and 255
  "font_color_highlighted": {
    "r": 255, "g": 255, "b": 255
  },
  // Values must be between 0 and 1
  "bg_color": {
    "r": 0.05, "g": 0.05, "b": 0.05, "a": 0.9
  }
}