Installed Krunner, executable not available
Aloha! I used to run krunner inside a hyprland session by invoking krunner via hotkeys or console.
Yesterday I removed plasma-desktop as hyprland does all I need except krunner. I kept the krunner package, but the executable "krunner" is no longer found. Anything I can do except installing the whole plasma-desktop again?
the /usr/bin/krunner executable is owned by the plasma-workspace package. It has a lot of dependencies. So yeah, you basically need a huge chunk of kde/plasma to run it.
A pretty similar Qt-based launcher utility (not quite so good in some areas, possibly better in some) is called albert, if you don't want to use plasma anymore.
Tried Albert, seems very capable, alas it is considered to be a regular window in hyprland. I tried catapult from the aur. Blazing fast and does math, I found my new launcher. Thanks everyone 🙏
I dont't see plasma-workspace as a dependecy. Output from paru:
undefined
paru -S krunner ✔ 41s
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (41) kactivities-5.109.0-1 kauth-5.109.0-1 kbookmarks-5.109.0-1 kcodecs-5.109.0-1 kcompletion-5.109.0-1
kconfig-5.109.0-1 kconfigwidgets-5.109.0-1 kcoreaddons-5.109.0-1 kcrash-5.109.0-1 kdbusaddons-5.109.0-1
kdeclarative-5.109.0-1 kded-5.109.0-1 kglobalaccel-5.109.0-1 kguiaddons-5.109.0-1 ki18n-5.109.0-1
kiconthemes-5.109.0-1 kio-5.109.0-2 kirigami2-5.109.0-1 kitemviews-5.109.0-1 kjobwidgets-5.109.0-1
knotifications-5.109.0-1 kpackage-5.109.0-1 kservice-5.109.0-1 ktextwidgets-5.109.0-1 kwallet-5.109.0-1
kwayland-5.109.0-1 kwidgetsaddons-5.109.0-1 kwindowsystem-5.109.0-1 kxmlgui-5.109.0-1
libdbusmenu-qt5-0.9.3+16.04.20160218-6 media-player-info-24-2 plasma-framework-5.109.0-1
polkit-qt5-0.114.0-1 qca-qt5-2.3.7-1 qt5-multimedia-5.15.10+kde+r3-1 qt5-speech-5.15.10+kde+r1-1
qt5-wayland-5.15.10+kde+r57-1 solid-5.109.0-1 sonnet-5.109.0-1 threadweaver-5.109.0-1 krunner-5.109.0-1
Total Download Size: 41.58 MiB
Total Installed Size: 133.02 MiB
This is still alot for one tool, but as far as I can see it will not install the whole plasma desktop again. I am running GNOME, so not sure if GNOME already brings some dependencies not mentioned in my output.
Thanks, I ll take albert into consideration
Do you need Krunner as a generic applauncher or do you use other features too?
I use the maths functionality and find the unit conversion handy to have, though I admit I cannot remember using it ;)
If you tinker with programming , you can look into ags - aylurs gnome shell. His dotfiles include an app launcher in it, adding this functionality should not be too hard.
I don't think there is. The Krunner binary is part of the plasma-desktop and it will likely require some dependencies and libraries usually installed through that package.
Did you try a simple pacman -S krunner?
Yes, it does not supply the krunner executable