kohane27 / rofi-snippet

Text expander for linux to be integrated with rofi

Welcome to rofi-snippet 👋

rofi-snippet is a text snippet tool for Linux

Requirements

rofi-snippet relies on the following command line tools

• xdotool
• xsel
• rofi

In addition, rofi-snippet requires golang for compilation.

For example, on Ubuntu, you can get what you need with the following commands:

sudo apt install xsel
sudo apt install xdotool
sudo apt install rofi
sudo apt install golang-go

Installation

1. Clone this repo: git clone https://github.com/tkancf/rofi-snippet
2. Change into rofi-snippet: cd rofi-snippet
3. Install: make install
4. A binary is produced in ~/go/bin. Make sure GOPATH is in your environment variables. To check, run go env.
5. Run rofi-snippet in the terminal to test.

Remarks

By default, config.toml is installed to /etc/rofi-snippet/config.toml. If you want to change this default location, modify confPath := "/etc" + "/rofi-snippet" + "/config.toml" in main.go and following two lines in Makefile to your desired location:

    @sudo mkdir -p /etc/rofi-snippet/
    @sudo cp ./config.toml /etc/rofi-snippet/

🚀 Usage

You probably want to bind rofi-snippet to a global shortcut. If you're using i3, you can add the following line to ~/.config/i3:

bindsym $mod+Shift+d exec --no-startup-id "rofi-snippet"

Restart i3. By pressing $mod+Shift+d, it'll bring up the rofi-snippet.

Author

👤 tkancf

• Website: https://ggdg.tkan.dev
• Github: @tkancf

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