Shared Awesome App Menu

Shared Awesome App Menu is a tool forked from the unmantained https://github.com/montagdude/awesome-appmenu.

This application is a python script that extract the icons on your system, and creates a sorted categories menu on $HOME/.config/awesome-appmenu/appmenu.lua

Table of Contents

• Features
  • Installation
  • Flags and Configuration
  • Screenshot

Features:

• Supports icons
• Fully configurable search paths for launchers and icons
• Fully configurable categories
• Can create a custom Favorites menu
• Searches recursively for launchers in specified search paths
• Properly ignores .desktop files with NoDisplay=true, and does not write empty categories
• Ungrouped launchers are automatically put into a Miscellaneous category
• Installable as a package on Arch Linux

Installation:

1. Clone the package

git clone https://github.com/sharedordaz/Shared-AwesomeAppMenu

2. Make the package

sudo make install

TO ARCH LINUX AND PACMAN BASED SYSTEMS ONLY

Instead of writing the command above, write this:

makepkg -si

This will make appear this package on your pacman packages

3. Run the initial script

awesome-appmenu

4. Write the configuration on ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua or where is your rc.lua awesome config file. Write this code at the begginig of the file

~/.config/awesome/rc.lua
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--Importing appmenu module
local appmenu = require("appmenu")

5. Copy and paste { "applications", appmenu.Appmenu } to this fragment of the code, so it looks like that

~/.config/awesome/rc.lua
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mymainmenu = awful.menu({ items = { { "awesome", myawesomemenu, beautiful.awesome_icon },
                                    { "open terminal", terminal },
                                    { "applications", appmenu.Appmenu}

                                  }
                        })

6. OPTIONAL: Write a command to keep updating the apps you install each session. You can write the flags you want.

~/.config/awesome/rc.lua
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--Importing appmenu module

awful.spawn.with_shell("awesome-appmenu")

Flags and configuration

Flag	Action
--no-icons	Do no include icons on the menu
--verbose, -v	Print verbose output for debugging
--help, -h	Show usage information

To modify the default settings, edit the variables launcherpaths, iconpaths, and categories in $HOME/.config/awesome-appmenu/menurc.py. launcherpaths and iconpaths are searched in the order listed in this file, so list them in order of your preference. Categories will appear in the menu in the order they are listed in the config file. A sample configuration is supplied and installed by default at /usr/share/awesome-appmenu/menurc.py when you run make install.

Screenshot: