Module helper 

Helper utilities.

This corresponds to helper.h.

Structs

RofiHelperExecuteContext

The startup notification context of the application to launch.

Functions

cairo_image_surface_create_from_svg^⚠

Get a cairo surface from an SVG path.

cmd_set_arguments^⚠

Set the application arguments.

config_find_widget^⚠

Find the configuration element. If not exact, the closest specified element is returned. Returns the ThemeWidget if found, otherwise null.

config_sanity_check^⚠

Do some input validation, especially the first few could break things. It is good to catch them beforehand.

create_pid_file^⚠

Returns file descriptor (or -1 when failed).

execute^⚠

Executes the comand.

execute_command^⚠

Executes the comand. If needed memebrs of context are null, they will be filled.

execute_generator^⚠

Execute cmd using config.run_command and outputs the result (stdout) to the opened file descriptor.

expand_path^⚠

Expand path, both ~ and ~<user>.

find_arg^⚠

Check if key is passed as argument.

find_arg_char^⚠

Parse command line argument key to character. This supports character escaping.

find_arg_int^⚠

Parse command line argument key to int.

find_arg_str^⚠

Parse command line argument key to string.

find_arg_strv^⚠

Parse all command line options key to string vector.

find_arg_uint^⚠

Parse command line argument key to unsigned int.

force_utf8^⚠

Convert string to valid UTF-8, replacing invalid parts with replacement character.

get_theme_path^⚠

Returns path to theme or copy of filename if not found.

latin_to_utf8_strdup^⚠

Converts latin to UTF-8.

levenshtein^⚠

UTF-8 aware levenshtein distance calculation.

output_formatted_line^⚠

This functions outputs the formatted string to stdout, appends a newline (\n) character and calls flush on the file descriptor.

parse_char^⚠

Parses a string into a character.

parse_ranges^⚠

Parse ranges.

parse_setup^⚠

Parses a string into arguments, replacing keys with values.

remove_pid_file^⚠

Remove pid file.

scorer_fuzzy_evaluate^⚠

Run Rofi’s global sequence alignment algorithm to find the maximum accumulated score by aligning pattern to str. It applies when pattern is a subsequence of str.

string_replace_if_exists^⚠

Items {key} are replaced by the value if {key} is passed as key/value pair, otherwise removed from string. If the {key} is in between [] all the text between [] are removed if {key} is not found. Otherwise key is replaced and & removed.

theme_find_property^⚠

Find the property on the widget. If not exact, the parents are searched recursively until match is found. Returns the Property if found, otherwise null.

token_match^⚠

Tokenized match, match tokens to line input.

tokenize^⚠

Tokenize the string on spaces.

tokenize_free^⚠

Frees the array of matching objects.

utf8_strncmp^⚠

Compares the G_NORMALIZE_ALL_COMPOSE forms of the two strings.