evemenu

This script lets you interact with a custom actions menu based on dmenu.

The idea is to expand on the basic functionality of dmenu by defining personal commands, applications, routines and other scripts to run with it.

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Installation

This project consists of a single bash script.
To "install" it, copy it to the bin directory and give it executable permissions.

git clone https://github.com/marcoplaitano/evemenu && cd evemenu
sudo cp evemenu /usr/local/bin/evemenu
sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/evemenu

Note: it relies on the dmenu utility; you can install it from this repository.

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Usage

Launch the script with the evemenu command.

Appearance

You can customize the appearance with custom values for the font, the background and foreground colors.
These are defined as variables in the script itself.

Actions

The most important part of the script is the dictionary containing all the actions that can be executed.
The values are the routines to run and the keys are the names the user has to type to execute the commands.

# [key]=value
declare -A actions=(
    [chatgpt]="firefox https://chat.openai.com/"
    [nightmode]="night_mode.sh --on"
    [spotify]="spotify"
)

With this example, launch the script and type out (or select with the arrows) either chatgpt, nightmode or spotify and the correspondent action will be performed.

The advantage of evemenu, compared to the standard dmenu utility, is the possibility of defining custom actions which can be applications (like spotify) or more complex commands with arguments and options (like chatgpt, opening a specific link in the browser), or even other scripts (nightmode).

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Dependencies

The only dependency is the dmenu utility. Install it from this repository.

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Author

Marco Plaitano

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License

Distributed under the MIT license.