#!/usr/bin/env perl # vim:ts=4:sw=4:expandtab # # © 2012 Michael Stapelberg # # No dependencies except for perl ≥ v5.10 use strict; use warnings qw(FATAL utf8); use Data::Dumper; use IPC::Open2; use POSIX qw(locale_h); use File::Find; use File::Basename qw(basename); use File::Temp qw(tempfile); use Getopt::Long; use Pod::Usage; use v5.10; use utf8; use open ':encoding(UTF-8)'; binmode STDOUT, ':utf8'; binmode STDERR, ':utf8'; # reads in a whole file sub slurp { my ($filename) = @_; open(my $fh, '<', $filename) or die "$!"; local $/; my $result; eval { $result = <$fh>; }; if ($@) { warn "Could not read $filename: $@"; return undef; } else { return $result; } } my $entry_type = 'both'; my $dmenu_cmd = 'dmenu -i'; my $result = GetOptions( 'dmenu=s' => \$dmenu_cmd, 'entry-type=s' => \$entry_type, 'version' => sub { say "dmenu-desktop 1.3 © 2012 Michael Stapelberg"; exit 0; }, 'help' => sub { pod2usage(-exitval => 0); }); die "Could not parse command line options" unless $result; # ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ # ┃ Convert LC_MESSAGES into an ordered list of suffixes to search for in the ┃ # ┃ .desktop files (e.g. “Name[de_DE@euro]” for LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8@euro ┃ # ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ # For details on how the transformation of LC_MESSAGES to a list of keys that # should be looked up works, refer to “Localized values for keys” of the # “Desktop Entry Specification”: # http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s04.html my $lc_messages = setlocale(LC_MESSAGES); # Ignore the encoding (e.g. .UTF-8) $lc_messages =~ s/\.[^@]+//g; my @suffixes = ($lc_messages); # _COUNTRY and @MODIFIER are present if ($lc_messages =~ /_[^@]+@/) { my $no_modifier = $lc_messages; $no_modifier =~ s/@.*//g; push @suffixes, $no_modifier; my $no_country = $lc_messages; $no_country =~ s/_[^@]+//g; push @suffixes, $no_country; } # Strip _COUNTRY and @MODIFIER if present $lc_messages =~ s/[_@].*//g; push @suffixes, $lc_messages; # ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ # ┃ Read all .desktop files and store the values in which we are interested. ┃ # ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ my %desktops; # See http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html#variables my $xdg_data_home = $ENV{XDG_DATA_HOME}; $xdg_data_home = $ENV{HOME} . '/.local/share' if !defined($xdg_data_home) || $xdg_data_home eq '' || ! -d $xdg_data_home; my $xdg_data_dirs = $ENV{XDG_DATA_DIRS}; $xdg_data_dirs = '/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/' if !defined($xdg_data_dirs) || $xdg_data_dirs eq ''; my @searchdirs = ("$xdg_data_home/applications/"); for my $dir (split(':', $xdg_data_dirs)) { push @searchdirs, "$dir/applications/"; } # Cleanup the paths, maybe some application does not cope with double slashes # (the field code %k is replaced with the .desktop file location). @searchdirs = map { s,//,/,g; $_ } @searchdirs; # To avoid errors by File::Find’s find(), only pass existing directories. @searchdirs = grep { -d $_ } @searchdirs; find( { wanted => sub { return unless substr($_, -1 * length('.desktop')) eq '.desktop'; my $relative = $File::Find::name; # + 1 for the trailing /, which is missing in ::topdir. substr($relative, 0, length($File::Find::topdir) + 1) = ''; # Don’t overwrite files with the same relative path, we search in # descending order of importance. return if exists($desktops{$relative}); $desktops{$relative} = $File::Find::name; }, no_chdir => 1, }, @searchdirs ); my %apps; for my $file (values %desktops) { my $base = basename($file); # _ is an invalid character for a key, so we can use it for our own keys. $apps{$base}->{_Location} = $file; # Extract all “Name” and “Exec” keys from the [Desktop Entry] group # and store them in $apps{$base}. my %names; my $content = slurp($file); next unless defined($content); my @lines = split("\n", $content); for my $line (@lines) { my $first = substr($line, 0, 1); next if $line eq '' || $first eq '#'; next unless ($line eq '[Desktop Entry]' .. ($first eq '[' && substr($line, -1) eq ']' && $line ne '[Desktop Entry]')); next if $first eq '['; my ($key, $value) = ($line =~ /^ ( [A-Za-z0-9-]+ # the spec specifies these as valid key characters (?:\[[^]]+\])? # possibly, there as a locale suffix ) \s* = \s* # whitespace around = should be ignored (.*) # no restrictions on the values $/x); if ($key =~ /^Name/) { $names{$key} = $value; } elsif ($key eq 'Exec' || $key eq 'TryExec' || $key eq 'Type') { $apps{$base}->{$key} = $value; } elsif ($key eq 'NoDisplay' || $key eq 'Hidden' || $key eq 'StartupNotify' || $key eq 'Terminal') { # Values of type boolean must either be string true or false, # see “Possible value types”: # http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s03.html $apps{$base}->{$key} = ($value eq 'true'); } } for my $suffix (@suffixes) { next unless exists($names{"Name[$suffix]"}); $apps{$base}->{Name} = $names{"Name[$suffix]"}; last; } # Fallback to unlocalized “Name”. $apps{$base}->{Name} = $names{Name} unless exists($apps{$base}->{Name}); } # %apps now looks like this: # # %apps = { # 'evince.desktop' => { # 'Exec' => 'evince %U', # 'Name' => 'Dokumentenbetrachter', # '_Location' => '/usr/share/applications/evince.desktop' # }, # 'gedit.desktop' => { # 'Exec' => 'gedit %U', # 'Name' => 'gedit', # '_Location' => '/usr/share/applications/gedit.desktop' # } # }; # ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ # ┃ Turn %apps inside out to provide Name → filename lookup. ┃ # ┃ The Name is what we display in dmenu later. ┃ # ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ my %choices; for my $app (keys %apps) { my $name = $apps{$app}->{Name}; # Don’t try to use .desktop files which don’t have Type=application next if (!exists($apps{$app}->{Type}) || $apps{$app}->{Type} ne 'Application'); # Don’t offer apps which have NoDisplay == true or Hidden == true. # See http://wiki.xfce.org/howto/customize-menu#hide_menu_entries # for the difference between NoDisplay and Hidden. next if (exists($apps{$app}->{NoDisplay}) && $apps{$app}->{NoDisplay}) || (exists($apps{$app}->{Hidden}) && $apps{$app}->{Hidden}); if (exists($apps{$app}->{TryExec})) { my $tryexec = $apps{$app}->{TryExec}; if (substr($tryexec, 0, 1) eq '/') { # Skip if absolute path is not executable. next unless -x $tryexec; } else { # Search in $PATH for the executable. my $found = 0; for my $path (split(':', $ENV{PATH})) { next unless -x "$path/$tryexec"; $found = 1; last; } next unless $found; } } if ($entry_type eq 'name' || $entry_type eq 'both') { if (exists($choices{$name})) { # There are two .desktop files which contain the same “Name” value. # I’m not sure if that is allowed to happen, but we disambiguate the # situation by appending “ (2)”, “ (3)”, etc. to the name. # # An example of this happening is exo-file-manager.desktop and # thunar-settings.desktop, both of which contain “Name=File Manager”. my $inc = 2; $inc++ while exists($choices{"$name ($inc)"}); $name = "$name ($inc)"; } $choices{$name} = $app; } if ($entry_type eq 'command' || $entry_type eq 'both') { my ($command) = split(' ', $apps{$app}->{Exec}); # Don’t add “geany” if “Geany” is already present. my @keys = map { lc } keys %choices; next if lc(basename($command)) ~~ @keys; $choices{basename($command)} = $app; } } # %choices now looks like this: # # %choices = { # 'Dokumentenbetrachter' => 'evince.desktop', # 'gedit' => 'gedit.desktop' # }; # ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ # ┃ Run dmenu to ask the user for her choice ┃ # ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ # open2 will just make dmenu’s STDERR go to our own STDERR. my ($dmenu_out, $dmenu_in); my $pid = open2($dmenu_out, $dmenu_in, $dmenu_cmd); binmode $dmenu_in, ':utf8'; binmode $dmenu_out, ':utf8'; # Feed dmenu the possible choices. say $dmenu_in $_ for sort keys %choices; close($dmenu_in); waitpid($pid, 0); my $status = ($? >> 8); # Pass on dmenu’s exit status if there was an error. exit $status unless $status == 0; my $choice = <$dmenu_out>; # dmenu ≥ 4.4 adds a newline after the choice chomp($choice); my $app; # Exact match: the user chose “Avidemux (GTK+)” if (exists($choices{$choice})) { $app = $apps{$choices{$choice}}; $choice = ''; } else { # Not an exact match: the user entered “Avidemux (GTK+) ~/movie.mp4” for my $possibility (keys %choices) { next unless substr($choice, 0, length($possibility)) eq $possibility; $app = $apps{$choices{$possibility}}; substr($choice, 0, length($possibility)) = ''; # Remove whitespace separating the entry and arguments. $choice =~ s/^\s//g; last; } if (!defined($app)) { die "Invalid input: “$choice” does not match any application."; } } # ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ # ┃ Make i3 start the chosen application. ┃ # ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ my $name = $app->{Name}; my $exec = $app->{Exec}; my $location = $app->{_Location}; # Quote as described by “The Exec key”: # http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s06.html sub quote { my ($str) = @_; $str =~ s/("|`|\$|\\)/\\$1/g; $str = qq|"$str"| if $str ne ""; return $str; } $choice = quote($choice); $location = quote($location); # Remove deprecated field codes, as the spec dictates. $exec =~ s/%[dDnNvm]//g; # Replace filename field codes with the rest of the command line. # Note that we assume the user uses precisely one file name, # not multiple file names. $exec =~ s/%[fF]/$choice/g; # If the program works with URLs, # we assume the user provided a URL instead of a filename. # As per the spec, there must be at most one of %f, %u, %F or %U present. $exec =~ s/%[uU]/$choice/g; # The translated name of the application. $exec =~ s/%c/$name/g; # XXX: Icons are not implemented. Is the complexity (looking up the path if # only a name is given) actually worth it? #$exec =~ s/%i/--icon $icon/g; # location of .desktop file $exec =~ s/%k/$location/g; # Literal % characters are represented as %%. $exec =~ s/%%/%/g; my $nosn = ''; my $cmd; if (exists($app->{Terminal}) && $app->{Terminal}) { # For applications which specify “Terminal=true” (e.g. htop.desktop), # we need to create a temporary script that contains the full command line # as the syntax for starting commands with arguments varies from terminal # emulator to terminal emulator. # Then, we launch that script with i3-sensible-terminal. my ($fh, $filename) = tempfile(); binmode($fh, ':utf8'); say $fh <{StartupNotify}) && !$app->{StartupNotify}) { $nosn = '--no-startup-id'; } $cmd = qq|exec $nosn "$exec"|; } system('i3-msg', $cmd) == 0 or die "Could not launch i3-msg: $?"; =encoding utf-8 =head1 NAME i3-dmenu-desktop - run .desktop files with dmenu =head1 SYNOPSIS i3-dmenu-desktop [--dmenu='dmenu -i'] [--entry-type=both] =head1 DESCRIPTION i3-dmenu-desktop is a script which extracts the (localized) name from application .desktop files, offers the user a choice via dmenu(1) and then starts the chosen application via i3 (for startup notification support). The advantage of using .desktop files instead of dmenu_run(1) is that dmenu_run offers B binaries in your $PATH, including non-interactive utilities like "sed". Also, .desktop files contain a proper name, information about whether the application runs in a terminal and whether it supports startup notifications. The .desktop files are searched in $XDG_DATA_HOME/applications (by default $HOME/.local/share/applications) and in the "applications" subdirectory of each entry of $XDG_DATA_DIRS (by default /usr/local/share/:/usr/share/). Files with the same name in $XDG_DATA_HOME/applications take precedence over files in $XDG_DATA_DIRS, so that you can overwrite parts of the system-wide .desktop files by copying them to your local directory and making changes. i3-dmenu-desktop displays the "Name" value in the localized version depending on LC_MESSAGES as specified in the Desktop Entry Specification. You can pass a filename or URL (%f/%F and %u/%U field codes in the .desktop file respectively) by appending it to the name of the application. E.g., if you want to launch "GNU Emacs 24" with the patch /tmp/foobar.txt, you would type "emacs", press TAB, type " /tmp/foobar.txt" and press ENTER. .desktop files with Terminal=true are started using i3-sensible-terminal(1). .desktop files with NoDisplay=true or Hidden=true are skipped. UTF-8 is supported, of course, but dmenu does not support displaying all glyphs. E.g., xfce4-terminal.desktop's Name[fi]=Pääte will be displayed just fine, but not its Name[ru]=Терминал. =head1 OPTIONS =over =item B<--dmenu=command> Execute command instead of 'dmenu -i'. This option can be used to pass custom parameters to dmenu, or to make i3-dmenu-desktop start a custom (patched?) version of dmenu. =item B<--entry-type=type> Display the (localized) "Name" (type = name) or the command (type = command) or both (type = both) in dmenu. Examples are "GNU Image Manipulation Program" (type = name), "gimp" (type = command) and both (type = both). =back =head1 VERSION Version 1.3 =head1 AUTHOR Michael Stapelberg, C<< >> =head1 LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT Copyright 2012 Michael Stapelberg. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the BSD license. =cut