J.A.R.V.I.S. offers an auto-hiding, auto-expanding single line zsh terminal. Pressing F11 will toggle a 100x32 window (so you can see more stuff)
There's a crude desktop service launcher function: launch comes with an autocomplete and runs the services applications tend to install in /usr/share/applications (or you add to ~/.local/share/applications)
It's not the same as either.
- rofi & dmenu are good runners, but they don't allow you to quickly look at or edit files, read a manpage, … without yet another window. Also you can't autocomplete paths in their prompt.
- Quake-a-like terminals provide you with an actual interactive shell and are much more similar to J.A.R.V.I.S., but the window is usually either too small (to less a file) or too big (to just run a process) and in the way.
J.A.R.V.I.S. shadows common binaries to alter the window size and run them w/ predefined parameters or pipes them into less. The point is to have convenient invocation of features you know and probably use, not to provide a "regular" interactive shell. As a result, your local shell functions and aliases might behave in unexpected ways and seem broken. In doubt, bypass jarvis by invoking the absolute path, eg. /usr/bin/less instead of less
- zsh
- urxvt
- xdotool
- redshift (optional)
Run install.sh as root and then bind /usr/bin/jarvis to some shortcut in whatever shortcut daemon you use. J.A.R.V.I.S. is smart enough to activate or toggle the window depending on its current state.
You can copy the "config" file in the repo to ~/.config/jarvis and edit it to your liking. See comments in that file on details.
J.A.R.V.I.S. sources files from /usr/share/jarvis/funcs.d and ~/.local/share/jarvis/funcs.d You can look up the provided ones and add your own. Done. Notice: if you intend to shadow a binary, the common noob error is to call the binary in the function w/o the absolute path which will not work and create a recursion because foo is no longer resolved from /usr/bin/foo but the function you just added that ends up calling itself… If you're not a noob but just not paying attention to what you do, relax: This happened to me much more than once in my life ;-)
If you're Tony Stark and you want to sue me, you're welcome. If you're not Tony Stark, but a stupid Mouse posing as Tony Stark, go fuck yourself. If you're Jon Favreau, thanks for making stuff that does not suck. And for Luke.