I’ve made an application launcher for myself that uses fzf to pick the application. Currently, it launches in an Alacritty window with a special config - it’s a small rectangle that has the fzf dialog, you pick the application and it goes away. That’s all the interaction needed. If I wanted to try to make this “GUI” more generic, what would I use?

      • Shadow@lemmy.ca
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        11 months ago

        Can you be more clear about what you’re looking to do? It sounds like you want to draw a dialog?

        You can look into ncurses too, there’s probably a bunch of bash wrappers for it.

        • driveway@lemmy.zipOP
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          11 months ago

          They both look good and can do the job, but as far as I can tell, I cant just call fzf into one of them and be done with it? I don’t want to write extra code for the GUI. This question is for research purposes mostly, I don’t intend to distribute this application - it has far too many functionality specific to me, hence why I don’t use one of the popular launchers.

          Mainly, I haven’t found a way to disable animations just for this specific window in KDE. That’s where the initial search started. Other launchers are not affected by opening/closing animations so I was curious how they do that.

    • Hexarei@programming.dev
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      11 months ago

      Ok legit I’ve been writing terminal applications for years and seen this everywhere without being able to find it. Thanks!