This is a simple application launcher designed to be an initial screen for my home media center. It respects gamepad inputs and displays a list of connected gamepads, a clock and a row of applications to run.
Lucide icons are used for gamepad status indication.
The launcher converts gamepad inputs into keyboard ones.
| Gamepad Button(s) | Keyboard Key(s) | Action |
|---|---|---|
| DPad Buttons | Arrow Keys | Move the focus indicator |
| Bottom Action Button | Enter | Run the selected application |
| Up Action Button | F5 | Reload configuration |
The config file should be located at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gpcl.toml.
You can configure window layout and define application list.
Example config:
[layout]
top_panel_height = 80 # default: 32
clock_height = 540 # default: 270
icon_size = 256 # default: 128
[[items]]
name = "Steam"
icon = "/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/steam.png"
exec = "steam -gamepadui"
[[items]]
name = "Kodi"
icon = "/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/kodi.png"
exec = "kodi"
[[items]]
name = "RetroArch"
icon = "/usr/share/pixmaps/retroarch.svg"
exec = "retroarch"
[[items]]
name = "Reboot"
icon = "/home/user/.local/share/pixmaps/reboot.png"
exec = "dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.login1 /org/freedesktop/login1 org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.Reboot boolean:true"
[[items]]
name = "Shutdown"
icon = "/home/user/.local/share/pixmaps/shutdown.png"
exec = "dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.login1 /org/freedesktop/login1 org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.PowerOff boolean:true"The layout configuration itself and layout parameters are optional. Note that layout parameters are defined in logical pixels.
The launcher is written in Rust, so it is built with cargo. It uses Slint as a graphical toolkit and uses winit as a backend
(required to work with windowing API not provided by Slint).
You can build it for Wayland, X11 or for both platforms using wayland (default) and x11 features:
cargo build --releaseproduces the Wayland-only build,cargo build --release --features x11produces the universal build that support both Wayland and X11cargo build --release --no-default-features --features x11produces the X11-only build