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by 0x445442 3075 days ago
Yeah, so dmenu might potentially cover the command input bit but AFAIK it's really just like Enso, QuickSilver, Launchy etc. What I'm thinking of doesn't really index executables per say but allows for the registration of commands.

What I'm thinking of is limited in scope to "commands" that are registered with the component. Maybe dmenu can be bent to this use case; thanks for the link.
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curioussavage 3075 days ago
I found a really cool project that makes a sublime style command menu for any gtk app https://github.com/p-e-w/plotinus. Still need to try it but it sounds awesome
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0x445442 3075 days ago
That's cool... It seems KDE's KRunner is pretty extendable as well. (https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma4/Abstr...)
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fao_ 3075 days ago
dmenu at it's core takes a list of input (dmenu_path), fuzzy matches it, and then just fork()s off or something like that, it's tiny so it'd be trivial to alter it so it does something else with that match. You could hook it up to xdotool or something and have it send a command to alter the current X app or whatever.
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zeckalpha 3075 days ago
What are executables on your PATH but registered commands?
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