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Biont authored Nov 12, 2024
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## Features
- Lists and executes available binaries
- Lists and executes .desktop files (entries as well as actions)
- Does not depend on `xdg-utils`. Just pure bash and `awk`
- Does not depend on `xdg-utils`. Just pure bash and `awk` (specifically gawk)
- Shows a preview window containing `whatis` info of binaries and the `Comment=` section of .desktop files
- History support which will highlight recently used entries
- Colored output and glyphs for the different entry types
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## Installation

Make sure you have `fzf` installed and download this repository.
Make sure you have `fzf` and `awk` installed and download this repository.
To be precise, the script specifically depends on GNU awk (`gawk`) so check what flavour your distribution provides.

Arch Linux users can also grab it from the AUR (thanks @turtlewit)

* [sway-launcher-desktop](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sway-launcher-desktop/)
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