bemenu-desktop-menu

A script for bemenu to run your desktop applications using dex.

The preview uses my wrapper for bemenu: bemenu-orange-wrapper.

Dependencies

• bemenu >= 0.6
• Nerd Fonts (Symbols Only)
• dex
• Bash >= 5
• setsid
• GNU awk, sed, xargs

Optional

• bemenu-orange-wrapper

Installation

Dependencies

• Debian example with bemenu-orange-wrapper:

1. Follow bemenu-orange-wrapper instructions.

2. Next:

# GNU awk, sed, xargs, setsid, dex
sudo apt install gawk sed findutils util-linux dex

bemenu-desktop-menu

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tkapias/bemenu-desktop-menu.git bemenu-desktop-menu
cd bemenu-desktop-menu
chmod +x bemenu-desktop-menu.bash

• The script uses the default locations to find the desktop entries:

  • "$HOME/.local/share/applications"
  • "/usr/local/share/applications"
  • "/usr/share/applications" If your system has different locations, add/modify them in the desktop_path array.

• Optional: Symlink to a directory in your user's path:

ln -s $PWD/bemenu-desktop-menu.bash $HOME/.local/bin/bemenu-desktop-menu

Features

• Entries sorted by Main Categories.
• Main Categories icon using Emojis.
• Display entry Name and Generic Name localized if available.
• Display the entry file location in brackets.
• Cache the list and generate only if the count or modification date of entries changed.
• Respect Hidden & NoDisplay features.
• Run the application forked using setsid.
• Run the application using also dex to respect XDG.

Usage

Just launch bemenu-desktop-menu, optionally filter the entries and select one to launch the application.

Integrations

• Binding exemple for bemenu-desktop-menu in i3wm:

bindsym $mod+d exec --no-startup-id "bemenu-desktop-menu"