popup-fzf

This script just open a pipe into a terminal, so you can push any command you want into from outside to execute them into the "pipe terminal". It was designed for poping a fzf menu.

Use

Run this script from a terminal: kitty bash -c <thisscript> Then echo "command" > /tmp/dtpipe-<PPID> from another shell

Easy install

Copy dtpipe and dtpipe_send into /usr/local/bin (or ../bspwm/bin is you use bspwm, or any directory you then add to $PATH).
Run dtpipe from a script (see below) or from a terminal (ex: kitty -e dtpipe &)
Configure a rule in your window manager to run the drop terminal window hidden (see below)
Send commands to the drop terminal using dtpipe_send. Ex: dtpipe_send fzf -m --preview='head -10 {+}'

Setting a fzf popup menu

Create a script launching this script into a terminal, here named 'launcher_dtpipe.sh':

#!/bin/bash
pathtoscript="/$HOME/.config/drop_pipe_terminal"
kitty --class pipe_terminal -o background_opacity=0.9 bash -c "$pathtoscript" &

Start the launcher script above at boot (after your window manager, I use bspwm so I launch the script from bspwmrc ; maybe it could be .xinitrc?)
Set a rule into your window manager to run by default any window of the 'pipe_terminal' class hidden. Mine is bspwm ; into bspwmrc: bspc rule -a pipe_terminal state=floating sticky=on hidden=on locked=on border=off center=true
Bind to a key binding the command you want to send to the pipe. For example in sxhdrc:
- In sxhkdrc:
```
super + ctrl + f
    $HOME/.config/dt_sendtopipe.sh fzf
```
- dt_sendtopipe.sh:

dtscript="$HOME/.config/launcher_dtpipe.sh"

# Get the name of the pipe (dtpipe+PID)
_pipe(){
   pipe=$(fd -I dtpipe /tmp)
}

_pipe

# Run the pipe terminal if not running
[[ -z $pipe ]] && $dtscript && sleep 1 && _pipe

[[ -n $@ ]] && echo "$@" > $pipe

Demo

(using some of my other scripts...)

Twix53791/popup-fzf

popup-fzf

Use

Easy install

Setting a fzf popup menu

Demo