desktop-icons

Show Files from a Directory on the Desktop

Features

• Show content from a folder as Icons on the Desktop
• Use xdg_user_dir to use the default desktop directory
• Start default application for the active file
• Update the Icons on changes to the directory (added/removed files)
• Drag and Drop Files from/to the Desktop
• Launching Apps from the Desktop
• Multi-Monitor Support
• Thumbnails for Images/Documents
• Sort Rows of List Store based on Name/Type/Date
• Context-Menu for creating files

Supported Desktops

Quoted from gtk-layer-shell

This application only works on Wayland, and only on Wayland compositors that support the Layer Shell protocol. Layer shell is supported on:

• wlroots based compositors (such as Sway)
• Mir-based compositors (some may not enable the protocol by default and require --add-wayland-extension zwlr_layer_shell_v1)

Layer shell is not supported on:

• Gnome-on-Wayland
• Any X11 desktop

Getting Started

Dependencies

• gtk+-3.0
• gtk-layer-shell

Arch

sudo pacman -S gtk3 gtk-layer-shell

Installation

git clone https://github.com/Geronymos/desktop-icons
cd desktop-icons
make
sudo make install

Uninstall

sudo make uninstall

Development

Dependencies

• bear

To have warnings and autocompletion with clangd in Vim you can generate the compile-commands.json with

make clangd

License

This project is licensed under the GPL-3 License - see the LICENSE file for details