linch 0.4.1

Cross-desktop application launcher made with iced egui

Features

• Launch apps or run commands on X11 and Wayland
  • Desktop entries also show icons
• Dmenu replacement
  • Linking linch <flags> dmenu directly to dmenu should work for basic applications
  • Does NOT currently support dmenu's cli flags. They will either have to be discarded or converted to linch equivalents.
• Search with regular expressions or plain text
• Easy custom themes
• Pure Rust, very portable.

Usage

linch bin for running binaries directly from PATH

linch app for running desktop applications

linch dmenu for piping custom choices through stdin dmenu-style

linch help for additional information

You may export WINIT_UNIX_BACKEND=x11 to force Linch to run in X11 mode.

Goals for 1.0

• Finalize desktop application support
  • Descriptions?
  • Actions?
• Possibly more CLI options
• Dmenu 1:1 compatibility?
• I should probably add a scroll bar.

Known issues

• Application does not stay always-on-top in Wayland
  • This is a current limitation from winit with no current workaround
• Hardcoded for Linux
  • Hypothetically, linch bin might work out-of-the-box if you're so determined. All it does is search PATH.

Installation

Compiled binaries are provided on the releases tab

Additionally, stable release binaries are automatically compiled with the Build Latest Release Tag Action while the latest unstable binaries are can be found in the Build Master Release Action

If you already have Rust installed, you can build the latest release with

cargo install --git https://github.com/Beinsezii/linch.git --tag 0.4.1

You may omit the --tag flag if you follow the rebel path and want the latest possibly unstable build.

It's recommended you add the downloaded binary or cargo install dir to your PATH for ease of use.

F.A.Q.

Question	Answer
Why is it called linch?	"Iced Launcher". I originally tried to write it with iced but due to multiple issues I rewrote everything in egui for the time being and lench just sounds stupid.