About

(copied from the original README, which is included at the bottom)

Yeahlaunch is a very simple application launcher which puts a horizontal menu on top of your screen. The menu will be hidden and only a one pixel border will be visible. If you point on that border the menu will be shown in an animated way.

Installation

Installation can be performed with:

make
su -c "make -C `pwd` install"

or, if you use sudo,

make
sudo make install

My .yeahlaunchrc now contains:

-bg=blue
Firefox=firefox
Thunderbird=thunderbird
=
XTerm=/usr/bin/xterm
=
OpenOffice=/opt/openoffice4/program/soffice
Writer=/opt/openoffice4/program/swriter
Calc=/opt/openoffice4/program/scalc
Math=/opt/openoffice4/program/smath
Base=/opt/openoffice4/program/sbase
Impress=/opt/openoffice4/program/simpress
Printers=/opt/openoffice4/program/spadmin
=
XSane=/usr/bin/xsane
XFig=/usr/bin/xfig -nosplash
GIMP=/usr/bin/gimp
XCalc=/usr/bin/xcalc
XMag=/usr/bin/xmag

New in 0.4:

• If you have just an = on its own in the config file, yeahlaunch will build its own separator, so you don't need the weird

      =/bin/false
  

  line any more. You can still use it if you want variable width separators, though.

• If you don't specify -x or -rx, on the command line or in the config file, then the launcher will center itself on the top of your screen.

• A missing configuration file no longer causes an annoying message.

• Minor code cleanups.

New in 0.3:

yeahlaunch will now read a configuration file named .yeahlaunchrc in your home directory. The format is:

name=value

where lines that begin with a dash (-) are treated as command-line arguments and everything else becomes a button title.

If you want a different configuration for different invocations (multihead, different positions on the screen, etc.), you can pass -c on the command line to read an alternate configuration file. (Using -c in the config file does nothing, though.)

Here's an example of my .yeahlaunchrc:

-x=600
-bg=blue
Firefox=firefox
    =/bin/false
VMWare=/usr/bin/vmplayer
    =/bin/false
OpenOffice=/opt/openoffice.org/program/soffice
Writer=/opt/openoffice.org/program/swriter
Calc=/opt/openoffice.org/program/scalc
Math=/opt/openoffice.org/program/smath
Base=/opt/openoffice.org/program/sbase
Impress=/opt/openoffice.org/program/simpress
Printers=/opt/openoffice.org/program/spadmin
    =/bin/false
XSane=/usr/bin/xsane
XFig=/usr/bin/xfig

The blanks act as spacers between "program groups."

New in 0.2:

• The menu entry is highlighted when clicked (see -afg below).

• Right-clicking launches the command and hides yeahlaunch instantly.

• New placement option -rx to which yeahlaunch will be placed right aligned. Specify -rx (your screen width here) and yeahlaunch will be right aligned to the top right corner of your screen.

• Leaving yeahlaunch sideways hides it as well now.

Original README

Yeahlaunch is a very simple application launcher which puts a horizontal menu on top of your screen. The menu will be hidden and only a one pixel border will be visible. If you point on that border the menu will be shown in an animated way.

Yeahlaunch has the following options:

-fg color     foreground color (defaults to white)
-afg color    highlight  color (defaults to yellow)
-bg color     background color (defaults to black)
-x number     x placement (defaults to 0)
-step number  step size for the animation(defaults to 3)
-fn font name (defaults to fixed)
-h            prints this help message

All other options on the command line are recognized in the following way:

label command (label is the string that is displayed, command is the command to execute)

This means used to mean you have to specify commands. If a command contains spaces or a "-" you have to use quotes (see example below).

This is what I have in my .xinitrc:

~/yeah/yeahlaunch/yeahlaunch -fn "*-aqui-*" -x 700 -fg "light steel blue" \
TVtime tvtime \
Opera opera \
Firefox firefox \
NEdit nedit \
Gimp "gimp-2.0" \
"  " "" \
Home rox  \
Yeah "rox ~/yeah" \
Vertikal "rox ~/vertikal" &

Installation is done by a simple make; make install (therealbstern adds: this only works if you like building things as root, or your everyday user account can write to /usr/local/bin).