program and icon from csv?

[prankousky]

Hi everybody,

I follow the example from the README.md and create those two files

rofi_launcher.sh

#!/bin/env bash

WORKINGDIR="/home/me/.local/share/bin"
MAP="$WORKINGDIR/rofi_programmstarter.csv"

cat "$MAP" \
    | cut -d ',' -f 1 \
    | rofi -dmenu -p "Util " \
    | head -n 1 \
    | xargs -i --no-run-if-empty grep "{}" "$MAP" \
    | cut -d ',' -f 2 \
    | head -n 1 \
    | xargs -i --no-run-if-empty /bin/bash -c "{}"

exit 0

rofi_launcher.csv

Firefox (def),firefox
Firefox (anderes Profil), firefox -p 123

This will work, as in it will give me two choices: 1. Firefox (def) 2. Firefox (anderes Profil). So far, so good.

But would it be possible to add icons to the csv and get the script to parse them? For example, change rofi_launcher.csv to this

Firefox (def),firefox,$HOME/.config/icons/firefox.png
Firefox (anderes Profil), firefox -p 123,/tmp/somepath/firefox2.png

But then, what would the rofi_launcher.sh have to look like?

I wasn't able to find a way to use custom icons, only icon themes, which (I assume) are based on the program names. So firefox should work, but firefox123 should not work, because there is no default icon for this.

Thank you in advance for your ideas :)

[DaveDavenport]

yes, this is fully possible. you can pass an icon name, or a full path to an image.
See the manpages and examples in the repository .

[DaveDavenport]

echo -en "test\0icon\x1f${PWD}/current.jpg\n" | rofi -dmenu

[prankousky]

Thank you. I have tried this with multiple different files (png and jpg), but there is no image being displayed. It only shows "test", nothing else.

Are there restrictions, for example, maximum file size / resolution? Or what could cause this? I am running rofi 1.7.5.

[DaveDavenport]

Did you enable icons in your theme? This should work fine if there is a file 'current.jpg' in the folder you execute it from. (I will test on 1.7.5)

[DaveDavenport]

echo -en "test\0icon\x1f${PWD}/current.jpg\n" | rofi -dmenu -no-config -show-icons

this works for me with 1.7.5.

There is no file limit, it scales it on load.. the image I had as test is several megapixels big.

[prankousky]

Thank you. That works. I had missed the -show-icons parameter. :)