Installing the command-line executable

Assuming you have Rust/Cargo installed, run this command in a terminal:

cargo install lap

It will make the lap command available in your PATH if you've allowed the PATH to be modified when installing Rust. cargo uninstall lap uninstalls.

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Overview

Application launcher for Linux

This scans for XDG desktop files and opens up a searchable list to launch the desired program.

Wayland is supported. X11 should work too, though this has not been tested.

Usage

When the GUI has focus, the following controls are available:

Enter: Launch selected app.
Esc (twice): Exit launcher.
Up: Select previous suggestion.
Down: Select next suggestion.

Configuration

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/lap/settings.toml is the configuration file. Available settings are described below with example values.

# Font to use
# Default: None
font-family = "Source Sans 3"

# Whether the window should be resizable.
# Setting this to false may make the window float if using a tiling window manager.
# Default: false
resizable-window = false

# Name of the icon theme to use for app icons
# Default: None
icon-theme = "Papirus-Dark"

Contribute

All contributions shall be licensed under the 0BSD license.