Complicated shortcuts are hard to remember and hard on the fingers, yet it is still nice to have shortcuts to scripts and used actions readily available.

With Blezz i intend to give an alternative to shortcut systems. It provides a little interface that shows up at launch, to guide the user through his own setup. Every keypress can go to new directory, or execute an action. It is possible for the user to make his own setup as simple or complex he wants, by adding content to a file.

As it is possible to execute shell scripts from Blezz almost any action imaginable is possible.

Compile with make and copy to bin directory with make install

make
sudo make install

If copied to the bin directory, make uninstall removes it, effectively uninstalling

Note: Any configuration file made for the program will remain

sudo make uninstall

There is two possible ways to configure Blezz. The content file is mandatory for getting any use out of the program. The config file is providing optional information about how the program should run.

A basic language have been formed to provide structural information about what the user wants to browse when he runs Blezz.

Note: The first directory declared will be the starting menu, until more configuration is possible.

Note: It does not matter if a directory is declared before or after being reffered to.

#This is a comment.
directoryName:                    #Defines the name of a directory for linking.
dir(char,linkedDirectory)         #Links to another directory. Binds to last mentioned directory
act(char,description,bashCommand) #Executes the command. Binds to last mentioned directory

(An example can be found in cfg/content)

A very basic configuration file can be formed by a single type of statements.

name=value

The options for this file is: (This is being heavily expanded currently)

(An example can be found in cfg/config)

How to start, control, and exit Blezz.

To run Blezz, simply call it with optional paths to your configuration file like this:

./bin/blezz -c ./cfg/config -p ./cfg/content

Until better configuration of controls, this is the default.

Terminate Blezz by pressing the close button, by default ESC, or going a level up at the starting directory, by default with '-'.

argp and xcb is the only libraries used to build this project.

See project page. Any help is gladly taken.