rofi-menus

A small collection of rofi scripts to manage:

• shutting down
• screen brightness
• some xrandr settings
• scrot functions
• i3 layouts

Prerequisites

• rofi
• scrot (only needed for scrotmenu)
• i3lock (only needed for powermenu, can be omitted or substituted for another screen locker)
• i3 (needed for i3layout)
• systemctl (systemd)

Installation

mkdir -p ~/.config/rofi/scripts/ && cd ~/.config/rofi/scripts/
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin/
git clone https://github.com/cramermarius/rofi-menus menus/
cd menus

to install all scripts

chmod +x bin/* scripts/*
sudo cp bin/* /usr/local/bin/
sudo chown <username> /usr/local/bin/*menu/

to install scripts one-by-one

brightnessmenu

chmod +x bin/brightnessmenu scripts/brightnessmenu
sudo cp bin/brightnessmenu /usr/local/bin
sudo chown <username> /usr/local/bin/brightnessmenu

i3layout

chmod +x bin/i3layout scripts/i3layout
sudo cp bin/i3layout /usr/local/bin
sudo chown <username> /usr/local/bin/i3layout

powermenu

chmod +x bin/powermenu scripts/powermenu
sudo cp bin/powermenumenu /usr/local/bin
sudo chown <username> /usr/local/bin/powermenu

scrotmenu

chmod +x bin/scrotmenu scripts/scrotmenu
sudo cp bin/scrotmenu /usr/local/bin
sudo chown <username> /usr/local/bin/scrotmenu

xrandrmenu

chmod +x bin/xrandrmenu scripts/xrandrmenu
sudo cp bin/xrandrmenu /usr/local/bin
sudo chown <username> /usr/local/bin/xrandrmenu

Usage

Because you copied some copied the contents of bin/ you can call these menus by simply typing <++>menu in your terminal You could also bind them to keybinds in your WM or DE, for i3 my binds are:

bindsym Mod4+Shift+x exec powermenu
bindsym F7 exec xrandrmenu
bindsym Control+F7 exec i3layoutmenu
bindsym F10 exec scrotmenu

Setup

brightnessmenu

cat /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/max_brightness The integer that will get printed in the terminal is the number you need to put into ~/.config/rofi/scripts/menus/scripts/brightnessmenu.sh. in the lines you will see some placeholder tags: <x%>, you will need to calculate the percentage of your max_brightness. For me this would be: 416 * 0.02 for the 1st option or 416 * 0.6 for the 4th option. Now the script should work normally. Keep in mind you will need sudo permissions for executing this script as we are editing a system file. file

i3layoutmenu

This script should work out of the box if you are using i3.

powermenu

This should work out of the box as well, assuming you are using i3 for the lock and logout options, everything else should work as long as you have systemd. In case you want to use i3lock with options as a colored background you can just add the flag to the command If you don't have i3 you can easily swap out i3lock and i3-msg exit for something else. You can also edit the sleep times for option 3 to 5 if you feel the need to.

scrotmenu

If you have scrot installed this should work out of the box too. Keep in mind you might want to edit the save locations for the command by editing the cd command locations.

xrandrmenu

To configure xrandrmenu first make sure you have xrandr installed. Now type xrandr in your terminal and look for the monitor names in the output. For me it is eDP-1 for my laptop monitor and DP-1 for my external monitor. Now just replace in the xrandrmenu.sh script with whatever output you like.

Screenshots

Follow this link to view some screenshots.

Acknowledgment

I took great inspiration for this from vahnrr

Some other cool rofi menus:

• vahnrr's rofi-menus
• pandozer's rofi-clipboard-manager

Meta

Marius Cramer – marcramer[at]pm[dot]me

cramermarius/rofi-menus