Wayland command runner

logrusx · Advocate Joined: 22 Feb 2018 Posts: 2778

Hello,

I'm strugling to formulate search term for something that runs commands under Wayland much like Gnome CTRL+F2 opens a text input field where you can enter a command and it'll run it just like in a terminal, could you help me with that? I need just a command runner because the app launcher won't do that. Yes, there are launchers that can, I've tried them all and don't like the ones which have that feature. I just dropped walker as I sensed early that upstream is going to be pain to communicate with. It's also not that good looking. I currently use nwg-drawer but it can't run commands, only desktop files.

Best Regards,
Georgi

spica · Guru Joined: 04 Jun 2021 Posts: 346

try to search "awesome wayland" or "curated list wayland"
Example list of launchers: https://github.com/rcalixte/awesome-wayland?tab=readme-ov-file#launchers
dmenu-like launcher shall be a good match

logrusx · Advocate Joined: 22 Feb 2018 Posts: 2778

I don't want a launcher, much less dmenu. It's a terrible choice. I want a simple command runner.

I've been through that list, most of it does not do what I want or I simply dislike it. I have a launcher that's OK. There's even more choice or launchers that are not in that list. I want to run some applications with parameters and I don't want to create desktop files for them, they would be way too many. Also sometimes I want to run a simple one off command. And I don't want to do it from a terminal.

Best Regards,
Georgi

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2025 11:29 pm Post subject:

I use gmrun, x11-misc/gmrun-1.4w-r1, uses gtk3, very light weight.
Edit to add: yes it runs under wayland, nothing X specific to it.
Uses bash style auto completion and has history list.

image of it
https://blog.desdelinux.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/gmrun.png
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UM780, 6.12 zen kernel, gcc 13, openrc, wayland