DIRS=( /run/current-system/sw/share/applications "$HOME/.nix-profile/share/applications" "$HOME/.local/share/applications" ) entries="" for dir in "${DIRS[@]}"; do [[ -d "$dir" ]] || continue setopt nullglob for f in "$dir"/*.desktop; do [[ -f "$f" ]] || continue # Skip hidden entries grep -q "^NoDisplay=true" "$f" && continue grep -q "^Hidden=true" "$f" && continue # Only GUI apps grep -q "^Type=Application" "$f" || continue grep -q "^Terminal=true" "$f" && continue # Skip ONLY actual junk categories (not System!) categories=$(grep -m1 "^Categories=" "$f" | cut -d= -f2-) if [[ -n "$categories" ]]; then echo "$categories" | grep -qE "(Settings|Screensaver|DesktopSettings)" && continue fi # Get name (handle localized fallback) name=$(grep -m1 "^Name=" "$f" | cut -d= -f2-) if [[ -z "$name" ]]; then name=$(grep -m1 -E "^Name\[.*\]=" "$f" | cut -d= -f2-) fi # Get exec exec=$(grep -m1 "^Exec=" "$f" | cut -d= -f2-) [[ -z "$name" || -z "$exec" ]] && continue # Remove field codes like %U %F etc. exec=$(echo "$exec" | sed -E 's/ ?%[a-zA-Z]//g') entries+="$name"$'\t'"$exec"$'\n' done done # Deduplicate + sort entries=$(printf '%s' "$entries" | sort -fu -t$'\t' -k1,1) # FZF selection chosen=$(printf '%s' "$entries" | fzf \ --prompt='Launch: ' \ --layout=reverse \ --info=inline \ --delimiter=$'\t' \ --with-nth=1) [[ -z "$chosen" ]] && exit 0 exec_cmd=$(printf '%s' "$chosen" | cut -d$'\t' -f2) # Launch safely eval "$exec_cmd" &>/dev/null & disown