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bemenu | wslg | |
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12 | 141 | |
1,114 | 9,700 | |
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8.2 | 6.1 | |
22 days ago | 22 days ago | |
C | C++ | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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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.
wslg
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FreeRDP: A Remote Desktop Protocol Implementation
WSLg(Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI) uses RDP and FreeRDP to work: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
I haven't tried it yet, but I'm hopeful the experience is better than last time I tried Hyper-V enhanced linux experience. I imagine this use case is getting FreeRDP way more attention.
For years I've developed in a Linux VM on a Windows host via VirtualBox. The typing lag on this, particularly in IDEs like VSCode and Rider, finally got to me. So, I moved over to WSL and have to say; the experience is amazing.
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Wayland Is Pretty Good
This is running in WSL?
Microsoft has some wayland stuff already for WSL, though I think internally there's RDP involved: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
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Need help getting Linux GUI applications to run on Windows through WSL 2
That said. Graphical apps will just run on WSL without needing to install anything. Check: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
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I tried
What are you talking about? Its free forever https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
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The world if Windows was POSIX compliant
Actually, you can https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
- better window management for GUI apps?
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Inconsistent Window Theme on GUI Apps
See: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/563 and other similar issues on wslg GitHub.
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Ask HN: Windows 10-based devs, are you upgrading to Windows 11?
Apparently, WSLg does away with the need for a separate X server, making things "easy" to use:
https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
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Graphics in c++ but in wsl
There's two completely different aspects to your question. 1) How to manage libraries in c++ without dying from cringe? I'd suggest you use cmake as the build system and grab library sources directly from GitHub using this tool: https://github.com/cpm-cmake/CPM.cmake 2) How to get apps that run under WSL to display windows-native windows? I'm not sure, but it's probably this: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
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How to access Ubuntu's stock desktop environment using wslg and D3D12?
Here’s a thread about it. You can get into the underlying RDP session instead of just apps launching. https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/1019
What are some alternatives?
rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, run dialog and dmenu replacement - fork with wayland support
GWSL-Source - The actual code for GWSL. And some prebuilt releases.
tessen - an interactive menu to autotype and copy pass and gopass data
WSL2-Linux-Kernel - The source for the Linux kernel used in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2)
Sway-DE - 🏠 Sway desktop environment dotfile installation for Arch Linux
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
rofi-pass - rofi frontend for pass
WSL - Issues found on WSL
pass-tessen - fuzzy data selection and copy-paste from password store
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
password-store-example - Gopass examples
cmder - Lovely console emulator package for Windows