#1 2015-10-11 20:05:20

mrneilypops

The BL Scrot.Moe Guy

From: luxembourg

Registered: 2015-09-30

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Anyone seen Albert?

Just wanted to give the heads up on Albert, an application and file launcher

https://github.com/ManuelSchneid3r/albert

http://fav.me/d9c9k1w

Cheers,
Neil

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ohnonot

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Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 5,592

Re: Anyone seen Albert?

it's a qt5 app and pulled in 90MB of dependencies, although i already have qt5 installed.

it's compiling right now.

Snap

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Registered: 2015-10-02

Posts: 465

Re: Anyone seen Albert?

Aside of being Qt5, If anyone's experienced with them, pros/cons over synapse and kupfer?

ohnonot

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Re: Anyone seen Albert?

i just posted this on an already open issue on https://github.com/ManuelSchneid3r/albert:

i'm having the same issue.
installed albert to archlinux from the AUR.

    i just entered "killall tint2" and it opened a web search on that.
    i tried disabling the web search plugin, but it requires a restart.
    after a restart all settings are reset (i.e. all plugins enabled).
    albert created a folder in $HOME/.config/albert, but it's empty.
    there's no man page, so i don-t even know how to manually edit the config file (albert -h doesn't help either).

    it doesn't even seem to have remembered my last command.

reading this issue, i looked in ~/.config/manuelschneider. there's albert.conf, but no matter what, it only contains

[General]
hotkey=Ctrl+Alt+A

the folders ~/.config/albert and ~/.local/share/albert are empty.

in any case, for me, a launcher that doesn't support shell commands is not useful.

Döbbie03

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 3,870

Re: Anyone seen Albert?

Fantastic app.  If I wasn't using Gnome Shell that would be my go to launcher.

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Snap

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Registered: 2015-10-02

Posts: 465

Re: Anyone seen Albert?

Interesting to know about it... I'll keep sticking to rofi and dmenu whatsoever.

shot-in-the-head

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Registered: 2015-10-28

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Re: Anyone seen Albert?

I tried it out but I can do the same with dmenu or interrobang and they are so quick and lightweight and adaptable enough.

another one is called  mutate
https://github.com/qdore/Mutate
like the way the plugins are just scripts in python perl bash etc that you put in
~/.config/Mutate/scripts
However I still find no reason to switch from Dmenu or interrobang

Last edited by shot-in-the-head (2015-10-29 10:24:36)