The entire purpose of this utility is to read .desktop entries and pipe them to something like dmenu or rofi.
I made this thing as a replacement for j4-dmenu-desktop (which at the time simply didn't work on my machine for some reason), which in turn is a replacement for i3-dmenu-desktop.
Simply running rdl will open up dmenu with desktop entries
located in /usr/share/applications. You can set your dmenu
command, terminal for terminal applications and paths where .desktop
files are located with command line parameters.
Check out the example config.
git clone https://github.com/mnkisala/rdl.git
cd rdl
cargo install --path .
cargo install rdl