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bemenu
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Bash Menu
I really like using something like fuzzy search for menus like these. https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu is pretty cool in that it works both in a terminal, X11 and on Wayland, so if you want to do something graphical later you can easily migrate. There's also fzf and skim, which work similarly but are only for the terminal.
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Run scripts using keybindings in default settings
I know that dmenu won't work on wayland, hence I installed bemenu as a drop-in replacement. Now I want to configure keybindings for my scripts using the default settings, but they don't seem to work. Running my scripts from the terminal work, but not when running them via keybinding.
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command line menu / launcher?
bemenu (i. e. bemenu-run) is a simple launcher that has command line interface (set with BEMENU_BACKEND environment variable), also fzf can be useful in this regard but it will most likely require writing additional scripts to work as a launcher.
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The end of the nice GTK button
I've already highlighted how using environment variables to change themes is a horrible user experience. The bemenu program suffers from the same flaw. Environment Variables should never be used in any way for values that might change inside a running session.
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How to accept text input in swaynag?
bemenu
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No_color
Environment variables are fine when used for things that usually don't change once they're set. For example, XDG_CONFIG_HOME or GOPATH. They are, however, absolutely awful when used to configure values that will probably change inside a session. A good example is BEMENU_OPTS from the bemenu program, which is used to change colors, font etc. Should I relogin into my session just to make a program use dark mode colors?
https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu#environment-variables
In such cases, environment variables lose their intended purpose and they need to be stuffed into wrapper scripts or overridden on the command line before executing a command, which is extremely annoying.
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Identifying the window of Bemenu
Bemenu - "Dynamic menu library and client program inspired by dmenu"
- Less Than 10% of Firefox Users on Linux Are Running Wayland
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Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround
Instead of rofi, bemenu[2] is nice too.
[1] https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst/issues/264
[2] https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu
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tessen: an interactive menu to autotype and copy password store data on Wayland, like rofi-pass
tessen can use either bemenu, the wayland fork of rofi, or wofi to show password store data. It relies on wtype for autotyping instead of using ydotool because ydotool needs root privileges.
fzf
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Ask HN: Any tool for managing large and variable command lines?
In addition, I think bash's `operate-and-get-next` can be very helpful. When you go back through your shell history, you can hit Ctrl+o instead of enter and it will execute the command then put the next one in your history on the command line, and keep track of where you are in your history. This way, you can rerun a bunch of commands by going to the first one and Ctrl+o till you are done. And you can edit those commands and hit Ctrl+o and still go to the next previously run command.
Note: fzf's history search feature breaks this. https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/issues/2399
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pyfzf : Python Fuzzy Finder
fzf : https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
- Command Line Fuzzy Search
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So You Think You Know Git – Git Tips and Tricks by Scott Chacon
Those are the most used aliases in my gitconfig.
"git fza" shows a list of modified/new files in an fzf window, and you can select each file with tab plus arrow keys. When you hit enter, those files are fed into "git add". Needs fzf: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
"git gone" removes local branches that don't exist on the remote.
"git root" prints out the root of the repo. You can alias it to "cd $(git root)", and zip back to the repo root from a deep directory structure. This one is less useful now for me since I started using zoxide to jump around. https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide
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Which command did you run 1731 days ago?
> my history is so noisy I had to find another way
The fzf search syntax can help, if you become familiar with it. It is also supported in atuin [2].
[1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#search-syntax
[2]: https://docs.atuin.sh/configuration/config/#fuzzy-search-syn...
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Z – Jump Around
You call it with `n` and get an interactive fuzzy search for your directories. If you do `n ` instead, it’ll start the find with `` already filled in (and if there’s only one match, jump to it directly). The `ls` is optional but I find that I like having the contents visible as soon as I change a directory.
I’m also including iCloud Drive but excluding the Library directory as that is too noisy. I have a separate `nl` function which searches just inside `~/Library` for when I need it, as well as other specialised `n` functions that search inside specific places that I need a lot.
¹ https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
² https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
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alacritty-themes not working any more!!!
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Fish shell 3.7.0: last release branch before the full Rust rewrite
I do find the history pager stuff interesting, but ultimately not of tremendous use for me. I rebound all my history search stuff to use fzf[1] (via a fish plugin for such[2]), and so haven't been aware of the issues
[1] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
[2] https://github.com/PatrickF1/fzf.fish
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Ugrep – a more powerful, ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep
You can also use fzf with ripgrep to great effect:
[1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/blob/master/ADVANCED.md#usin...
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What are some alternatives?
rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, run dialog and dmenu replacement - fork with wayland support
peco - Simplistic interactive filtering tool
tessen - an interactive menu to autotype and copy pass and gopass data
zsh-autocomplete - 🤖 Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion.
rofi-pass - rofi frontend for pass
z - z - jump around
Sway-DE - 🏠 Sway desktop environment dotfile installation for Arch Linux
zsh-autosuggestions - Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh
pass-tessen - fuzzy data selection and copy-paste from password store
mcfly - Fly through your shell history. Great Scott!
password-store-example - Gopass examples
ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console