salman-abedin/devour.sh

Window Manager agnostic swallowing feature for terminal emulators (Shellscript)

Demonstration done by DistroTube

Devour: Window Manager agnostic swallowing feature for terminal emulators

Devour hides your terminal window before launching an external program and unhides it after quitting.

Devour is the successor to BSPWM_Swallow and a fork of sw by ronniedroid

Dependencies

• sed, xdo

Installation

git clone https://github.com/salman-abedin/devour.git && cd devour && sudo make install

Usage

devour CMD/ALIAS ... SAFE FILE ...
devour CMD/ALIAS ... -- SAFE FILE/UNSAFE FILE

Pro Tip

Devour from your file explorer instead of the shell.

Watch my demo and notice how seamless it is compared to devouring from the shell.

Hint: If you are one of those unfortunate souls who uses xdg-open instead of a custom launch script, then go to your ~/.local/share/applications directory and modify the applications you launch from your file explorer like below and enjoy the true devouring experience.

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=PDF Reader
Exec=/usr/local/bin/devour /usr/bin/zathura %U

Uninstallation

sudo make uninstall

Patches

• 21/06/20:- Added support for names with spaces

• 07/07/20:- Added support for shell aliases

• 24/07/20:- Added support for names with spaces in alias mode

Contributors

• agnipau

• HawaiinPizza

• sbuller

• AriaMoradi

• durcor

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Contact

SalmanAbedin@disroot.org