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Ah nice! Thanks for the suggestion. Yeah
--previewis a great feature that is good to remember.And true, it's better to use
find -executablethan ls. Although in my case I would use-type f -o -type lsince I want to include symlinks (often I will cd into my local bin folder andln -s $(which )to add it to my launcher). I'm using ls since I only put executables in there and using relative file paths so that it's nicer to look at. But cd or sed would work as wellYeah the xargs + i3-msg part is a bit clunky but I'm not sure what else to do, since the terminal window needs to close immediately, which prevents the application from running. I tried a few variations with nohup and launching in the background, but haven't found another solution. But I'm sure there's a way