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This is an article I wrote. Sorry mods if it is not allowed I checked the sidebar rules, and closest was no ads, and I do not know if this qualifies for that (I do not have ads or analytics on the page)

Edit - Thanks to @[email protected] for recommendations. I have now Included an image and a video demo of using the script, and also got syntax highlighting

https://sga.codeberg.page/articles/Launcher/Launcher_for_Everything.html

Edit 2 - I have chnaged my keys for password, so dont worry about that, and about low quality and stuttering video playback, that was just network being poor at that time, also i forgot to give a demo of calculator and web searching, forgive me for that, and if you want, instead of term-dmenu, you can use fzf directly, and you would not leave terminal

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Thanks for sharing.
I was personally not motivated/good enough to write a new tool so I've wrote scripts to use rofi (easily adaptable to dmenu) as:

an app launcher
a clipboard manager
an infobar to show things like the date/time, memory usage, disk space, battery level, wifi signal…
an omnibar to perform an internet search, quick units conversions
a calculator for simple math
a bookmark manager (list, open, edit, add, remove)
a password/2FA token manager (list, edit, add, remove, autofill internet fields)
a wifi manager
a vpn manager

I've explained the basis here if you're curious. Even though I was bad at keeping my code up to date you may get some ideas to expand your program.