Myrmidon

A dead-simple, tiny task executor for Rofi.

What

Myrmidon executes tasks for you, displaying something similar to modern text editor's command palette. You define the task names and commands, and let myrmidon make a fuzzy search list to select and execute tasks.

Why

I've been looking for something like this for a while since I started using i3. Sometimes not everything merits yet another keybinding to remember, nor a bunch of shell files laying around.

Requirements

Myrmidon currently depends on:

• Rofi
• jq

Installation / defining tasks

Copy both shell scripts in the same directory (e.g: ~/bin)

Define your tasks in a json file. The default location of the json file will be $HOME/.myrmidon-tasks.json, but you can pass an optional argument as a custom path for the configuration file (e.g: ./myrmidon.sh ~/my-custom-path/tasks.json).

Each task is comprised of a name, command and whether or not it needs a confirmation screen (confirm):

Example:

[
  {
    "name": "Area screenshot",
    "command": "gnome-screenshot -a"
  },
  {
    "name": "Window screenshot",
    "command": "gnome-screenshot -w"
  },
  {
    "name": "Power off",
    "confirm": true,
    "command": "systemctl poweroff"
  },
  {
    "name": "Reboot",
    "confirm": true,
    "command": "systemctl reboot"
  },
  {
    "name": "Suspend",
    "confirm": true,
    "command": "systemctl suspend"
  }
]

After configuring your tasks file, you would have to set up a keybinding, if needed, to make it work.

For example, in i3:

bindsym $mod+p exec --no-startup-id ~/bin/myrmidon.sh

Multiple config files

As it is possible to provide an optional location of the config file, you can keep multiple keys for different task "categories", for example:

bindsym $mod+p exec --no-startup-id ~/bin/myrmidon.sh ~/common-tasks.json
bindsym $mod+Esc exec --no-startup-id ~/bin/myrmidon.sh ~/power-tasks.json
bindsym $mod+Print exec --no-startup-id ~/bin/myrmidon.sh ~/screenshot-tasks.json

This way, for example, $mod+Esc will now only show tasks related to power (Power off, restart, suspend, etc), as to not pollute the task pool.

Contribute

If you feel there's any missing feature you'd like to see in Myrmidon, feel free to propose it or open a pull request!