Rust Bookmark (d)Menu is a dmenu/ncurses based interface to manage bookmarks independently of your web browser. It also supports file/folder bookmarks
Location of Bookmark file ?
The Bookmark file for rbmenu is stored in ~/.local/share/rbmenu/
File format of the file ?
The Bookmark file is stored in json format.
More features ? Yes, more features are on the way. Some planned ones are, copy to clipboard, modify bookmarks and so on.
rbmenu is available on crates.io
Arch Linux : Available on AUR, rbmenu for manual compilation from release and rbmenu-bin for precompiled binary
Manual Installation
- Install the rust toolchain. cargo should be on the $PATH
- Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/DevHyperCoder/rbmenu.git. Change directory (cd) into the rbmenu folder
- Build the code: cargo build --release
- Copy the binary to a location on $PATH. Binary is in ./target/release/rbmenu
- For operation with cargo, cargo run -- <options>.
| Option / Flags | Description |
| ---------------- | -------------------------- |
| -h --help | Prints help information |
| -i | Insert a new bookmark |
| -l | List all bookmarks |
| -n --name | Name of the bookmark |
| -V --version | Prints version information |
Insert a new bookmark
rbmenu reads from stdin, therefore, you are able to pipe text into it.
-n is the name of the bookmark. (Not required as if not provided, the domain name is used)
echo "https://discord.com/app" | rbmenu -in "Discord"
Scripts working with
dmenuorrofiwould be published soon.
List bookmarks
Without the name option, rbmenu -l displays all the available bookmarks. Give a regex string to the -n flag to filter out the bookmarks
rbmenu -ln "git*"
RBMenu is licensed under the GPL-3 license.