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Capplauncher

By @benpospo

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An app launcher/menu similar to wofi for linux but it is entirely terminal based

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@benpospo on Capplauncher

I made a app menu for linux like wofi that is very simple and terminal-based. It gets rid of many of the issues I had with my previous app menu wofi, like the entries not being sorted alphabetically, search not working at times and so on.

The most challenging part was definitely getting the terminal to work and rerouting all the keyboard and mouse events.

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App is ready to be used - Implemented scrolling, Arrow navigation and launching

I finished the app today and I now use it instead of wofi. I added arrow key navigation, scrolling, searching and app launching.

Under the hood the program uses my own .ini parser to parse .desktop files, when launching it substitutes the provided exec command with arguments like .desktop file location, translated name, icon…

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