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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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[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 10 months ago

I mean, I would use fzf if I were already in a terminal, but if I wanted a pop-up window, rofi is the right tool. Forking a terminal to run fzf seems a round-about way to solve this.

I don't know what you're asking, though. It sounds as if it does what you want, even if it isn't the way I'd do it... are you asking because you want to make it easier for other people to use?