gnomeorbs

Turn your scripts into GNOME ORBS.

Starting from any script or executable file:

$ cat ~/.local/bin/nightlight

#!/bin/bash
if [[ $(gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.color night-light-enabled) == "true" ]]; then gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.color night-light-enabled false; else gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.color night-light-enabled true; fi

Run this program to generate a .desktop file for it and an icon:

$ gnomeorbs ~/.local/bin/nightlight

Selected executable file:
    /home/kekelp/.local/bin/nightlight
Target .desktop file:
    /home/kekelp/.local/share/applications/nightlight.desktop
Generated icon:
    /home/kekelp/.local/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/nightlight.png
Completed.

Now you can call your script from the GNOME search by just pressing Super and typing the name:

• The generated .desktop file has the same name as the script, converted to Title Case.
• It includes common misspellings of the script name.
• The icon has a random hue seeded from the script name.

Options

• --overwrite (-o): overwrite .desktop files or icons if they are already present. Without this flag, gnomeorbs will never overwrite anything.

• --edit (-e): open the generated .desktop file with the system default editor for further customization

• --terminal (-t): run the command in the terminal, by wrapping the command into bash -c {command}; $SHELL".

Install

Binary for Linux x86-64: gnomeorbs 1.0.0

Or just cargo run --release