This project was meant to be a personal project, but I'm sharing anyways. Therefore, I am not accepting any contributions. Thank you.

Also, if newly installed or modified applications are not executing/launching/showing or not launching correctly, just run smilemenu --dcache app or manually delete the cache file (rm ~/.cache/smilemenu/apps_cache.json).

❤️ SmileMenu

A modern and simple launcher for Linux desktops.

Features

• Native Qt/QML interface
• Wayland layer-shell support
• Dynamic window sizing
• Desktop application launcher
• Application category searching
• Recent applications
• Fuzzy searching
• Provider scripting system (list / run)
• JSON config and QML theming
• And many more...
• See WIKI.md for everything

🏞️ Screenshots

⭐ Usage

Read from WIKI.md.

📌 Runtime Dependencies (Arch Linux)

• qt6-base
• qt6-declarative
• qt6-5compat
• layer-shell-qt

sudo pacman -S --needed qt6-base qt6-declarative qt6-5compat layer-shell-qt

⚙️ Build & Installation

IMPORTANT: All below guides are wrote for/in Arch Linux only; since I am using Arch.

Running from source

Clone the repository:

git clone https://codeberg.org/SmileLulz404/SmileMenu.git
cd SmileMenu

1. Build:

# Prepare
mkdir build && cd build

# Build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
make -j$(nproc)

# Or rebuild
make clean
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
make -j$(nproc)

2. Run directly:

For test and debugging

# Start the daemon
./smilemenu --daemon

# Use
./smilemenu

3. (Optional) Install with make:

I recommend build & install for your distro instead

sudo make install

Build for Arch

Build dependencies:

• cmake
• make
• gcc

sudo pacman -S --needed cmake make gcc

Build and install:

makepkg -si