Show Files from a Directory on the Desktop
- 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
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
- gtk+-3.0
- gtk-layer-shell
Arch
sudo pacman -S gtk3 gtk-layer-shell
git clone https://github.com/Geronymos/desktop-icons
cd desktop-icons
make
sudo make install
Uninstall
sudo make uninstall
Dependencies
- bear
To have warnings and autocompletion with clangd in Vim you can generate the
compile-commands.json
with
make clangd
This project is licensed under the GPL-3 License - see the LICENSE
file for details