Rofi and its powerful scripts

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When you realize necessity is the mother of invention

Help with Sxhkd #

I kept on forgetting the keybindings of my bspwm + sxhkd workflow setup, initially. The obvious solution was to setup a help menu which will help me remember the bindings whenever I needed them. That is when I went on a internet voyage to find such a thing. To my relief I found the perfect blog describing this and many cool features we can achieve in the setup when combined with rofi.

sxhkd-help

#!/bin/bash

awk '/^[a-z]/ && last {print "<small>",$0,"\t",last,"</small>"} {last=""} /^#/{last=$0}' ~/.config/sxhkd/sxhkdrc |
    column -t -s $'\t' |
    rofi -dmenu -i -markup-rows -no-show-icons -width 1000 -lines 15 -yoffset 40

And then just add an appropriate key binding in a the sxhkdrc file

# help menu
super + slash
    ~/.config/sxhkd/sxhkd-help

Clipboard #

The same blog describes a method to setup a clipboard using rofi, sxhkd and clipmenu in the following manner.

sxhkdrc

# clipboard
alt + v
    CM_LAUNCHER=rofi clipmenu \
        -location 1 \
        -m -3 \
        -no-show-icons \
        -theme-str '* \{ font: 10px; \}' \
        -theme-str 'listview \{ spacing: 0; \}' \
        -theme-str 'window \{ width: 20em; \}'

The result is a very concise clipboard showing the recent clips.