shortcuts_menu
Presents some menu to run shortcut commands. Supports nested menus (aka categories / sub-menus).
Configuration example
[shortcuts_menu.entries]
"Open Jira ticket" = 'open-jira-ticket "$(wl-paste)"'
Relayout = "pypr relayout"
"Fetch window" = "pypr fetch_client_menu"
"Hyprland socket" = 'kitty socat - "UNIX-CONNECT:$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/hypr/$HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE/.socket2.sock"'
"Hyprland logs" = 'kitty tail -f $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/hypr/$HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE/hyprland.log'
"Serial USB Term" = [
{name="device", command="ls -1 /dev/ttyUSB*; ls -1 /dev/ttyACM*"},
{name="speed", options=["115200", "9600", "38400", "115200", "256000", "512000"]},
"kitty miniterm --raw --eol LF [device] [speed]"
]
"Color picker" = [
{name="format", options=["hex", "rgb", "hsv", "hsl", "cmyk"]},
"sleep 0.2; hyprpicker --format [format] | wl-copy" # sleep to let the menu close before the picker opens
]
Command
menu [name]
Displays the full menu or part of it if "name" is provided
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If "name" is provided it will show the given sub-menu.
You can use "." to reach any level of the configured menus.
Example to reach
shortcuts_menu.entries.utils."local commands"
, use:shpypr menu "utils.local commands"
Configuration
All the Menu configuration items are also available.
entries
Defines the menu entries. Supports Variables
[shortcuts_menu.entries]
"entry 1" = "command to run"
"entry 2" = "command to run"
Submenus can be defined too (there is no depth limit):
[shortcuts_menu.entries."My submenu"]
"entry X" = "command"
[shortcuts_menu.entries.one.two.three.four.five]
foobar = "ls"
Advanced usage
Instead of navigating a configured list of menu options and running a pre-defined command, you can collect various variables (either static list of options selected by the user, or generated from a shell command) and then run a command using those variables. Eg:
"Play Video" = [
{name="video_device", command="ls -1 /dev/video*"},
{name="player",
options=["mpv", "guvcview"]
},
"[player] [video_device]"
]
"Ssh" = [
{name="action", options=["htop", "uptime", "sudo halt -p"]},
{name="host", options=["gamix", "gate", "idp"]},
"kitty --hold ssh [host] [action]"
]
You must define a list of objects, containing:
name
: the variable name- then the list of options, must be one of:
options
for a static list of optionscommand
to get the list of options from a shell command's output
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You can apply post-filters to the command
output, eg:
{
name = "entry",
command = "cliphist list",
filter = "s/\t.*//" # will remove everything after the TAB character
}
check the filters page for more details
The last item of the list must be a string which is the command to run. Variables can be used enclosed in []
.
command_start
(optional)
command_end
(optional)
submenu_start
(optional)
submenu_end
(optional)
Allow adding some text (eg: icon) before / after a menu entry.
command_* is for final commands, while submenu_* is for entries leading to another menu.
By default submenu_end
is set to a right arrow sign, while other attributes are not set.
skip_single
(optional)
Defaults to true
. When disabled, shows the menu even for single options
Hints
Multiple menus
To manage multiple distinct menus, always use a name when using the pypr menu <name>
command.
Example of a multi-menu configuration:
[shortcuts_menu.entries."Basic commands"]
"entry X" = "command"
"entry Y" = "command2"
[shortcuts_menu.entries.menu2]
## ...
You can then show the first menu using pypr menu "Basic commands"