Walker Nerd Icons Menu

Custom Walker provider for searching Nerd Font glyphs, copying the selected icon, or inserting it directly in the focused app. Built as a custom elephant's menus.

Prerequisites

• Walker
• Elephant with menus provider
• wl-copy (from wl-clipboard) for clipboard copy
• wtype for the insert action (Ctrl+i)
• At least one of curl or wget (used by the menu to fetch glyphnames.json when missing)

Installation

git clone https://github.com/nino-mau/walker-nerd-icons-menu.git
cd walker-nerd-icons-menu
./install.sh

The installer copies nerd-icons.lua to:

~/.config/elephant/menus/nerd-icons.lua

It also runs configure_walker.sh, which updates ~/.config/walker/config.toml to add custom actions for menus:nerd-icons under [providers.actions]. A timestamped backup of your Walker config is created before modification.

Walker setup

Add a prefix in your Walker config (~/.config/walker/config.toml):

[[providers.prefixes]]
prefix = "nf" # Can be anything
provider = "menus:nerd-icons"

Restart Walker and Elephant after configuration.

Usage

• Launch walker
• Type your prefix (nf) followed by a query
• Search by icon name (example: cod-arrow)
• Press Enter to copy the glyph
• Press Ctrl+i to insert/type the glyph in the focused window

Tip

You can launch the menu directly with walker --provider menus:nerd-icons

Data source

Glyph metadata is loaded from:

1. Local Nerd Fonts glyphnames.json paths (if found)
2. Cached file in ~/.cache/elephant/nerd-icons/glyphnames.json
3. Nerd Fonts upstream glyphnames.json URL