Sergey Svechnikov (https://unsplash.com/@blackout0

Custom dmenu for a collection of shell scripts

The infamous i3 & dmenu combo is my daily driver on GNU/Linux. I often create shell scripts to automate a set of commands. To allow for quick access to them (from console), I created the following simple shell script:

#! /bin/bash 
scripts=$(ls -L ~/scripts | grep sh)
res=$(echo "$scripts" | dmenu -l 15) 
if [ i-z $res ]
then        
  echo "No Action"
else         
xdotool type "sh ~/scripts/$res"
fi

(Source Code also on: https://github.com/aymenfurter/dmenu-quickaccess/blob/master/utils.sh)

You may also want to add the following line to your i3 config to bind the menu to mod+x:

bindsym $mod+x exec sh ~/scripts/dmenu/utils.sh

A preview of the dmenu created through the script