Scriptpanel

A simple button gui for shell scripts. It will create a window with one button per executable .sh or .py script in the specified folder(default ~/scripts). Each button's color will be randomized. A scriptpanel.yaml can be created in the scripts folder to assign different button labels and to provide tooltips.

Dependencies

• OpenGL
• glfw3 (sudo apt install libglfw3-dev)
• yaml-cpp (sudo apt install libyaml-cpp-dev)
• fontconfig
• imgui (included as git submodule)

Build

Build it as a cmake project or use our shorthand script to install to $HOME/.local

./install.sh

Beware $HOME/.local/bin/ might not be in your $PATH yet, so to call it from the command line you will have to add it yourself.

Usage

scriptpanel [path_to_script_folder]

To start the example from the build directory: ./scriptpanel ../example_scripts

scriptpanel.yaml

An example file can be found in example_scripts.

config:                    # global options
    num_buttons_per_row:   # number of buttons in each row
    button_height:         # height of each button in pixel
    button_width:          # width of each button in pixel
    font:                  # fontconfig pattern for a font used for the button labels

scripts:                   # options for individual buttons
    - label:               # text displayed on the button
      script:              # name of the script file. Only paths relative to the script folder are allowed
      tooltip:             # text displayed while hovering over the button
      terminal:            # if set to true, a seperate terminal gets opened to execute the script
      group:               # ensures that buttons in the same group have the same color and are displayed next to each other.