UniRun

Yet another shameless plug runner appliction.

Highly inspired by Anyrun and Walker.

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• Rust
• GTK4 with gtk4-layer-shell
• plugins via Unix-sockets to be able to write them in any language that can work with IPC and will communicate with main app by some kind of protocol NOTES

How to

Build

git clone --recursive https://github.com/bzglve/unirun.git
cd unirun
cargo build --release

Customizing build

unirun crate contains some features

to build with/without features you can do

# build enabling feature
cargo build --release --features A --features B
# build without default features
cargo build --release --no-default-features
# combining theese two
cargo build --release --no-default-features --features A

Features

• dep:gtk-layer-shell - gtk-layer-shell as optional dependency. For thouse who don't have that

Default

• dep:gtk-layer-shell

Install

# compile and put unirun and plugins to ~/.cargo/bin
cargo install --path unirun
cargo install --path plugins/*
# or you can copy unirun and plaugins binary to whereever dir you want
# cp target/release/unirun{,-plugin-application} ~/.local/bin

Run

unirun  # if it placed into dir from your $PATH

Note

unirun will scan dir where it placed for files matches unirun-plugin-* to launch them

so plugin need to be named proper way and placed alongside with unirun binary

Customizing run

• with (no) features and without install

  cargo run --bin unirun --no-default-features

• logging

  # trace debug warn info error
  RUST_LOG=trace cargo run  # ...

Comments

• yes, code looks terrible todo
• currently only one plugin todo
  • expanding there will be more, but it requires to write good looking messages protocol
  • mostly plugins will be written in rust as I'm currenly don't know how to be better to write common unirun-plugin parts without rewriting it from rust to for example python (?FFI)
    • but tecnically it is possible to use anything that works with socket

TODO

• Refactor and optimize
• Configuration
• Protocol
• Plugins
• UI
  • Close on Escape
  • First row selected by default