Ilia - A Desktop Executor

Ilia provides a modal interface prompting the user to select an item from a list. There are various items or pages that can be selected from by specifying the desired page via a command-line parameter. Also, all pages can be loaded together in "all page" mode.

Status

Ilia is in active development and should be considered beta quality.

Features

Ilia provides pages to view and select from the following types of things:

• Desktop Apps (apps)
• System Commands (terminal)
• Desktop Keybindings (keybindings)
• Notifications (notifications)
• Text List (textlist)
• File Search (tracker)
• Open Windows (windows)

Usage

Ilia can be launched from a terminal. The -p option allows to specify which page to present to the user.

Ex:

ilia -p keybindings

Desktop Apps

Ilia searches the system-configured $XDG_DATA_DIRS with applications applied at the end of each path for desktop application files. For example, if your system has $HOME/.local/share in the set of paths in $XDG_DATA_DIRS, the path $HOME/.local/share/applications/ will be searched for destkopt app files.

Text List

The textlist page is a bit different than the others pages. It provides a general purpose utility to provide a list of options for the user select and when the selection occurs, the selected item is returned by the invocation to ilia. In this way the program can be used in scripts to get user input from dynamic data, similar to rofi. The textlist page supports two additional parameters for more customization:

'textlist' - select an item from a specified list
        -l: page label
        -i: page icon

Configuration

Ilia supports the following configuration via gsettings under the namespace org.regolith-linux.ilia:

• window-width: width of window in pixels
• window-height: height of window in pixels
• icon-size: size of icons in pixels or 0 to disable icons

Example: Resetting screen width

gsettings reset org.regolith-linux.ilia window-width

Dependencies

Notifications

This page communicates with the Rofication daemon for managing desktop notifications.

Keybindings

This page uses the comment format specified by Remontoire and reads the i3 config via it's local socket.

Build

Ilia uses meson and ninja to build. Example:

$ git clone https://github.com/regolith-linux/ilia.git
$ mkdir ilia/build
$ cd ilia/build
$ meson ..
$ ninja
$ src/ilia

Package

Debian packages for Debian and Ubuntu are available in the Regolith 2 package repository.