rrun

Note: Apart from the occasional fix, this project is not actively developed anymore. rrun works fine and should run/compile for the time being on rust stable. Alternatives to rrun are gmrun and rofi. Feel free to fork, request ownership or commit pull requests.

rrun is a minimalistic command launcher in rust similar to gmrun. It started as a playground to learn Rust, but since i use it all day for months now, it's probably useful for others as well. It replaced gmrun and gnome-do on my laptop. rrun has few features, it can do bash completion and run commands and that's it. It will also append the commands being run to your bash history.

Dependencies

GTK3.10+

Installation

You have several options:

1. download a Debian package from https://github.com/buster/rrun/releases
2. install from crates.io with "cargo install rrun"
3. compile yourself with "cargo build"

Usage

• enter a command and press Return to execute it
• press TAB for tab completion of available commands
• Press Ctrl + Return to display the command output in the text field

Set up rrun as command helper on Capslock

I have mapped the unused, needless CapsLock key to some other key and set up Gnome or whatever (i3wm in my case) to launch rrun on keypress.

My ~/.Xmodmap:

remove Lock = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = XF86HomePage

Don't forget to run "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap" after login.

The relevant parts of ~/.i3/config:

bindsym XF86HomePage exec rrun
for_window [title="rrun"] floating enable
exec --no-startup-id xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap

How to build the package

Creation of a cowbuilder image

The build process needs pbuilder/cowbuilder installed in debian (apt-get install cowbuilder pbuilder). A Debian testing buid image can be created with:

sudo cowbuilder --create --distribution testing

Eatmydata Installation

Install eatmydata (on build machine and in the image) to speeding up dpkg (from https://wiki.debian.org/cowbuilder ):

On the build machine:

apt-get install eatmydata

In the build image:

sudo cowbuilder --login --save
apt-get install eatmydata

For eatmydata (>=82-2), add this /etc/pbuilderrc (on the build machine):

if [ -z "$LD_PRELOAD" ]; then
  LD_PRELOAD=libeatmydata.so
else
  LD_PRELOAD="$LD_PRELOAD":libeatmydata.so
fi

export LD_PRELOAD

Package Build Process

The debian package can be built with the following commands:

• make deb just creates the .deb file without touching the changelog
• make snapshot creates a snapshot .deb without incrementing the version number (but updating the changelog)
• make release creates a new release and bumps the minor version number

Contributors

@nightscape @tshepang