ripdrag is an application that lets you drag and drop files from and to the terminal.
It's designed to be feature to feature* compatible with dragon, while being written in modern Rust and GTK4.
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*some features like --on-top can't be ported over because of limitations in gtk4
Many applications expect files to be dragged into them. Normally you would have to put your beloved terminal aside and open a file manager to that, but now you can just type ripdrag FILENAME and be done.
Used in combination with a fuzzy finder like fzf - e.g. ripdrag $(fzf) - can make for an amazingly quick and painless terminal experience.
Click to see the installation guide
sudo apt install cargo libgtk-4-dev build-essential
sudo dnf install cargo gdk-pixbuf2-devel pango-devel graphene-devel cairo-gobject-devel cairo-devel python2-cairo-devel gtk4-devel
ripdrag is on the AUR: ripdrag-git
If you want to install it manually, you need to install the requirements:
sudo pacman -Sy --needed rust gtk4 base-devel
You need to have homebrew installed.
brew install rustup gtk4
rustup-init
A pre-compiled binary is available from the official repositories. To install it simply run,
pkgin install ripdrag
(Do not use sudo, if you don't want it to be installed on root)
cargo install ripdrag
(Not added by default)
PATH=$PATH:~/.cargo/bin
``` USAGE: ripdrag [OPTIONS] [PATHS]...
ARGS:
OPTIONS:
-v, --verbose Be verbose
-t, --target Act as a target instead of source
-k, --keep With --target, keep files to drag out
-r, --resizable Make the window resizable
-x, --and-exit Exit after first successful drag or drop
-i, --icons-only Only display icons, no labels
-d, --disable-thumbnails Don't load thumbnails from images
-s, --icon-size
There are still lots of thing to be done! Mainly: - clean up code - pacman, deb, rpm, windows and macos build scripts - automated builds
Feel free to contribute ;)