yaltl

yaltl is a terminal launcher

yaltl - Yet Another Linux Terminal Launcher

Dependencies

• clang
  • C++20
• ftxui - For TUI
• giomm - For drun
• gtkmm - For recent documents
• i3ipcpp - For i3/sway window switching
• pcre2 - regex (will fallback to C++11 regex implementation if not found)
• mtl - For vanity

Building

cd yaltl
export CC=clang
export CXX=clang++
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

Modes

• dmenu - Only accessibly by using -d or --dmenu
  • Reads from stdin and outputs selection to stdout
  • Will not run with any other modes since there may be unexpected behavior
• drun - Run from installed desktop applications
• recent - Lists recently used documents to open
• run - Run binary from PATH
• i3wm - Window switcher for i3wm/sway
• Script - Run a script
  • Results will be passed back to the script
  • Continued output to stdout will cause yaltl to continue to display the new results

Keyboard shortcuts

• Esc - Cancel out of yaltl
• Tab - Next Mode
• Shift+Tab - Previous Mode

Configuring i3/Sway

Example uses alacritty

Sway

Set up your menu command:

for_window [app_id="yaltl"] floating enable, border pixel 2, sticky enable
set $menu exec alacritty --class yaltl -d 80 10 -e sh -c 'yaltl -m drun,run,i3wm'

i3

i3 appears to have parse errors when trying to launch yaltl with args, so we use a launch script.

Create a launch script ~/.config/i3/scripts/launch_yaltl:

#!/usr/bin/env sh
yaltl -m drun,run,i3wm

Set up your menu command:

for_window [instance="yaltl"] floating enable, border pixel 2, sticky enable
set $menu exec alacritty --class yaltl -d 80 10 -e sh -c '~/.config/i3/scripts/launch_yaltl'