Maintain your own local gif library and access it using rofi.
Born from frustration between services not having a built in gif searcher, or the gif search functionality not always giving good results, rofi-gif will integrate into the rofi
launcher and give you access to a self curated gif library.
Full list of entries from file
Searching the entries
- PyYAML
- XSel
Create a source file in the following format:
$gif-url:
description: A description of the gif you'll understand
tags: (note - optional)
- more
- things
- to
- match
- against
Edit the config_file
variable in rofi-gif.py
to point to your source file
Add gif:/path/to/rofi-gif.py
to your rofi configuration file.
Example config:
rofi.modi: window,run,gif:/home/mcarlton/bin/rofi-gif.py
After searching for and selecting a gif, it will be copied into your system clipboard using the xsel
command.