Rofi Dev Launcher

Rofi Dev Launcher is a script that lets you launch projects on your preferred Development Environment using Rofi.

Demo.mp4

Dependencies

These are the dependencies you need to install in order to run the script.

• Rofi;
• Python.

Installation

Open a terminal and run the commands listed below.

# Clone the repository (or download the script from the releases page).
git clone https://github.com/Bavuett/rofi-dev-launcher.git
# Make the script executable.
cd rofi-dev-launcher
chmod +x rofi-dev-launcher
# Move the script to a directory in your PATH.
mv rofi-dev-launcher /usr/local/bin

Usage

Running the Script

To use the script, you define two environment variables: ROFI_EDITOR and ROFI_DIRECTORY. These can be defined in your shell's configuration file (such as ~/.bashrc) or while running the script.

ROFI_DIRECTORY=[YOUR DIR] ROFI_EDITOR=[YOUR EDITOR] rofi -show dev -modi dev:rofi-dev-launcher

ROFI_EDITOR is the command that will be used to open the project. For example, if you want to use Visual Studio Code, you would set ROFI_EDITOR to vscode.

You can find all the supported editors here in the EDITORS constant you can find at the beginning. If you want to use an editor that is not supported, you can add it to the script and - if you'd like - submit a pull request so others can use it too.

ROFI_DIRECTORY is the directory where the script will look for projects. It can be a relative or absolute path, so you can use ~ to refer to your home directory without having to type the full path.

Integration with Window Managers

You can use the script with your Window Manager by adding a shortcut to it. For example, in i3, you can add the following line to your configuration file to bind the script to the Mod+Shift+w shortcut. For example, this is my setup.

bindsym $mod+Shift+w exec --no-startup-id "ROFI_DIRECTORY=~/Coding/GitHub ROFI_EDITOR=vscode rofi -show dev -modi dev:rofi-dev-launcher"

Contributing

If you think that people can benefit from a feature you added or have any suggestions, feel free to open an issue or a pull request.

Please remember to follow the Code of Conduct when interacting with the community.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.