godlikemouse / xfce4-finder

Smart and intuitive application finder, complete with theme and customization support for the XFCE desktop.
MIT License
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xfce4-finder

Smart and intuitive application finder, complete with theme and customization support.

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Key Features

Customizable Settings

Application settings can be controlled using xfconf-query.

Available settings:

List all available settings:

xfconf-query -c xfce4-finder -l

List a setting:

xfconf-query -c xfce4-finder -p /web-search

Change a setting:

xfconf-query -c xfce4-finder -p /web-search -s https://www.bing.com?q=%s

Set array values:

xfconf-query -c xfce4-finder -p /application-directories -s /usr/share/applications -s /usr/local/share/applications

The above sets the application-directories array property which is used by xfce4-finder to location application files to /usr/share/applications and /usr/local/share/applications. You may need to update this setting if your applications directory is not included by default.

Installation

This application is available under the Arch Linux AUR repository as a PKGBUILD. To install using yay, use the following command:

yay xfce4-finder

Building

To build the application you will need to have the following dependencies installed.

On Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -S glib2 gtkmm garcon xfconf libxfce4util libxfce4ui automake autoconf xfce4-dev-tools

Building the application:

cd xfce4-finder/
./autogen.sh
make
make install

Running

Open xfce4-keyboard-settings and bind a key combination to use for the xfce4-finder such as META_KEY + SPACE_KEY or ALT_KEY + SPACE_KEY and invoke /usr/bin/xfce4-finder.

Once the application is displayed, begin typing. Execute commands with either the ENTER_KEY or by mouse clicking a selection in the autocomplete list.

Command Arguments

xfce4-finder 1.0

Usage:
  xfce4-finder [OPTION...]

Help Options:
  -h, --help            Show help options
  -v, --verbose         Show verbose text

Features/Issues

Feel free add feature requests or report issues: Features/Issues.

Troubleshooting

Community

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License

xfce4-finder is released under the MIT License.