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How would you ship a GUI for a fzf based application written in Bash? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 10 months ago by driveway@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I've made an application launcher for myself that uses fzf to pick the application. Currently, it launches in an Alacritty window with a special config - it's a small rectangle that has the fzf dialog, you pick the application and it goes away. That's all the interaction needed. If I wanted to try to make this "GUI" more generic, what would I use?

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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

"dialog"

Top google result: https://linuxcommand.org/lc3_adv_dialog.php

[–] driveway@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

doesn't do what I'm asking

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can you be more clear about what you're looking to do? It sounds like you want to draw a dialog?

You can look into ncurses too, there's probably a bunch of bash wrappers for it.

[–] driveway@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They both look good and can do the job, but as far as I can tell, I cant just call fzf into one of them and be done with it? I don't want to write extra code for the GUI. This question is for research purposes mostly, I don't intend to distribute this application - it has far too many functionality specific to me, hence why I don't use one of the popular launchers.

Mainly, I haven't found a way to disable animations just for this specific window in KDE. That's where the initial search started. Other launchers are not affected by opening/closing animations so I was curious how they do that.

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 1 points 10 months ago

Mainly, I haven't found a way to disable animations just for this specific window in KDE.

This should still work: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how-to-make-a-window-rule-to-turn-off-compositing-for-a-certain-app/10341

[–] Hexarei@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

Ok legit I've been writing terminal applications for years and seen this everywhere without being able to find it. Thanks!