3w ago

Is there an applauncher/dock (not menu replacement) that can be launched with custom shortcuts (ps button)?

I feel like I'm googling the wrong thing since I'm mostly getting start menu replacements and not a supplement. I want to click the ps button or a keyboard button and have a grid pop up over my apps that displays pinned apps/games that I can scroll through and launch with my controller or keyboard. Does something like that this exist?

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Wonder if rofi would suit your needs?
https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
- I saw that while looking but isn't it just another way to search? I want to limit what can be sin just have a few specific games
  
  if you have a specific list, and are willing to manually configure this launcher, rofi is the way to go, as it is fully scriptable
  
  Ahh I may have misunderstood sounds like you're trying to "pin" applications to be launched. This is more app launcher than dock.
https://github.com/kando-menu/kando
This should be what you are looking for? Has controller support.
- That's great and definitely more on par with what I was looking for, thank you!
I've used Ulauncher in the past, it looks nice and it's launched with a keybinding, but I don't know if you can configure it to only include certain apps since I don't use it anymore.
- That seems useful in general, but kando was more what I was looking fot
Maybe you could configure KRunner to work for what you want? I'm not sure though. Haven't used it enough myself
Can't you just create a folder with links / shortcuts to all the applications and games and just open said folder with a click (or some kind of shortcut)?
- Exactly! I harbor nostalgia for the old Windows 3 desktop icon grid, so I open a file manager window pointing to ~/Desktop and display the *.desktop shortcuts there as icons. This is done automatically when gdm starts. My file manager is PCManFM, which is a rip-off of nautilus. Double-clicking on an icon opens the shortcut — be it to a terminal or a graphical application. I have to alt-tab to the PCManFM window of course, so I need the keyboard. Then I have to double-click with the mouse. It’s keeping both hemispheres of the brain active: subject/verb, left/right. Presumably you can map your game controller's buttons to keyboard equivalents like
  <right cursor>
  ,
  <tab>
  , and
  <enter>
  (or map your game controller's buttons to PCManFM's hot key config), which would allow you to navigate the PCManFM icon grid.
- I assumed someone would've made something that looks nice lol

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