dfdmenu

dfdmenu is a simple fish script that generates cached .desktop entries for use with dmenu(-wl).

Usage

1. $ dfdmenu generate-cache will create and populate 3 universal fish variables that act as cached pairs of .desktop entry Name's and Exec strings
2. $ dfdmenu will spawn dmenu-wl with all the possible valid entries. After an entry has been chosen, it's Exec parameter is fed to sh -c and it is executed.

The script also respects .desktop's NoDisplay properties and doesn't cache nor display apps that match that criteria.

The CLI arguments to pass to dmenu(-wl) are the ones in the global $dmenu_opts array.

The script tracks and caches .desktop files in /usr/share/applications and $HOME/.local/share/applications. If you wish to track .desktop files in any other location, modify the script and append them to the locations variable.

Pacmam hook

To use the provided pacman hook, replace /path/to/dfdmenu with an actual path to the dfdmenu script on your machine and place the hook file in a location in which pacman will recognize it (most likely /etc/pacman.d/hooks).

This will result in the cache being (re)generated once any pacman operation modifies any .desktop file.