/desktop-icons

Show Files from a Directory on the Desktop

Primary LanguageCGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

desktop-icons

Show Files from a Directory on the Desktop

Features

  • Show content from a folder as Icons on the Desktop
  • Use xdg_user_dir to use the default desktop directory
  • Start default application for the active file
  • Update the Icons on changes to the directory (added/removed files)
  • Drag and Drop Files from/to the Desktop
  • Launching Apps from the Desktop
  • Multi-Monitor Support
  • Thumbnails for Images/Documents
  • Sort Rows of List Store based on Name/Type/Date
  • Context-Menu for creating files

Supported Desktops

Quoted from gtk-layer-shell

This application only works on Wayland, and only on Wayland compositors that support the Layer Shell protocol. Layer shell is supported on:

  • wlroots based compositors (such as Sway)
  • Mir-based compositors (some may not enable the protocol by default and require --add-wayland-extension zwlr_layer_shell_v1)

Layer shell is not supported on:

  • Gnome-on-Wayland
  • Any X11 desktop

Getting Started

Dependencies

  • gtk+-3.0
  • gtk-layer-shell

Arch

sudo pacman -S gtk3 gtk-layer-shell

Installation

git clone https://github.com/Geronymos/desktop-icons
cd desktop-icons
make
sudo make install

Uninstall

sudo make uninstall

Development

Dependencies

  • bear

To have warnings and autocompletion with clangd in Vim you can generate the compile-commands.json with

make clangd

License

This project is licensed under the GPL-3 License - see the LICENSE file for details