thqmtakes its name from the arabic تحكم, pronounced tahakoom, meaning control.
thqm is a nifty little HTTP server. It dynamically generates a web page menu based on the provided stdin and outputs any selections to stdout.
In a sense, it functions similarly to dmenu/rofi but as a HTTP servers.
This makes it very flexible and script friendly.
See the examples folder for some example scripts.
To compile and install manually from this repo, you'll need rust installed.
To compile the binary:
console
$ git clone https://github.com/loiccoyle/thqm-rs
$ cd thqm-rs
$ cargo build --release
The compiled binary will be located at ./target/release/thqm.
Just place this binary somewhere in your $PATH.
console
$ cargo install thqm
Using your favourite AUR helper:
console
$ paru -S thqm
thqm has a few command line options, when in doubt see the --help.
``` $thqm --help thqm 0.1.6 Loic Coyle loic.coyle@hotmail.fr Control your scripts over the network.
thqm generates a web page menu from standard input and outputs client selections to standard output.
See https://github.com/loiccoyle/thqm.rs/tree/main/examples for full scripts.
Basic usage: $ echo 'Option 1\nOption 2' | thqm -U | while IFS= read -r sel; do case $sel in 'Option 1') echo 'hello';; 'Option 2') echo 'world';; *) echo "$sel";; esac done
USAGE: thqm [OPTIONS]
OPTIONS:
--custom-input Show custom input field.
-h, --help Print help information
--interface