Spotlight · Slowshell

Slowshell's spotlight is a simple launcher with modes. That's kind-of it.

Configuration

spotlight {
  cache #true
  cliphist #true
}

Node	Type	Default	Hot-Reload	Notes
`cache`	bool	`#false`	Yes	Cache = faster open.
`cliphist`	bool	`#false`	Yes	Uses `cliphist`.
`spawn-prefix`	string array	empty	Yes	Prefixes spawning applications. (e.g "systemd-run" "--user" "--scope" "--collect" or "sh -c $ARGS")

Modes

A spotlight mode is basically what the spotlight searches through (or what it generates). For example, applications (obviously), or just a simple calculator.

Built-in modes

Mode	What it searches	How to access
`applications`	Desktop entries, in a list or a grid	default
`clipboard`	Clipboard history (via `cliphist`)	IPC `spotlight.toggle clipboard`
`commands`	Psuedo-command-palette.	do `/`
`calculator`	It doesn't.	`23+2`

What about other modes

You can list all spotlight modes with this:

slowshell list spotlights

Display styles

Some modes support more than one layout. list is the default, grid tiles results, and image-list is for results with images (e.g: clipboard previews).

Style classes

.spotlight { padding-v: 14px; padding-h: 14px; gap: 8px; }

.spotlight.search {
  background-color: var(--mantle);
  border-radius: 12px;
  border-width: 1px;
  border-color: var(--overlay-a30);
}

.spotlight.result { background-color: var(--mantle); border-radius: 12px; border-width: 0px; border-color: var(--overlay-a15); }
.spotlight.result.selected { background-color: var(--primary); }
.spotlight.row { padding-v: 10px; padding-h: 10px; }
.spotlight.tag { background-color: var(--crust-a60); border-radius: 4px; border-width: 0px; border-color: var(--overlay-a15); }
.spotlight.action-chip { background-color: var(--crust-a60); border-radius: 4px; border-width: 0px; border-color: var(--overlay-a15); }

.spotlight.single {
  padding-v: 18px;
  padding-h: 18px;
  background-color: var(--mantle);
  border-radius: 12px;
  border-width: 1px;
  border-color: var(--overlay-a30);
}

.spotlight.backdrop { background-color: var(--crust-a60); }

IPC

slowshell ipc spotlight.toggle
slowshell ipc spotlight.toggle clipboard
slowshell ipc spotlight.open applications style=grid
slowshell ipc spotlight.close