Directly open a menu

[ADIX7]

Is there a way to directly open a custom menu with walker? I do see the provider config, but how can I specify a menu?

[abenz1267]

walker -m menus:yourmenu

[aaronshahriari]

@abenz1267 is there a faster way to open a menu like you mentioned in the docs?

Optimizing startup time
Since Walker is based on GTK4, it is by nature slow to startup. A lot of things have to be done each time you open it ⇒ slow.

This can be optimized, by keeping a Walker instance running with walker --gapplication-service

This way everything required in order to launch Walker (parsing config, setting up UI etc) is only done once.

Furthermore, you can make Walker popup via a socket call, f.e. nc -U /run/user/1000/walker/walker.sock . This is further improve the time till Walker appears on your screen, by avoiding any GTK4 cmdline parsing. So this can be used as a faster alternative to simply calling walker.

[abenz1267]

you need to address custom menus in walker with a menus: prefix. so menus:wallpaper_picker.

why does defining the second action function in lua lock the picker

not sure what you mean

[aaronshahriari]

I can run the menu via the command walker -m "menus:wallpaper_picker" but when I setup multiple actions like in browser_search and run walker -m "menus:browser_search" it wont let me utilize the select or the appselect functionality.

Something to do with this maybe:

[providers.actions]
browser_search = [
  { action = "menus:open", label = "open" },
  { action = "select", label = "select", default = true, bind = "Return", after = "Close" },
  { action = "appselect", label = "appselect", bind = "ctrl Return", after = "Close" },
]

Or this:

Actions = {
  select = "lua:OnSelect",
  appselect = "lua:AppSelect",  -- when I comment out this line and leave everything else the same normal select action works
}

[abenz1267]

read my previous message.

[abenz1267]

also: there's a discord channel.... :P

[aaronshahriari]

You're a legend! JOINING now!!!!

Putting this here for others

Solution for multiple actions:

walker/config.toml

[providers.actions]
"menus:browser_search" = [
  { action = "menus:open", label = "open" },
  { action = "select", label = "select", default = true, bind = "Return", after = "Close" },
  { action = "appselect", label = "appselect", bind = "ctrl Return", after = "Close" },
]

"menus:wallpaper_picker" = [
  { action = "menus:open", label = "open" },
  { action = "select", label = "select", default = true, bind = "Return", after = "Close" },
]