Aloha! I used to run krunner inside a hyprland session by invoking krunner via hotkeys or console.

Yesterday I removed plasma-desktop as hyprland does all I need except krunner. I kept the krunner package, but the executable “krunner” is no longer found. Anything I can do except installing the whole plasma-desktop again?

  • ragicaEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    the /usr/bin/krunner executable is owned by the plasma-workspace package. It has a lot of dependencies. So yeah, you basically need a huge chunk of kde/plasma to run it.

    A pretty similar Qt-based launcher utility (not quite so good in some areas, possibly better in some) is called albert, if you don’t want to use plasma anymore.

    • vojel@feddit.de
      2·
      1 year ago

      I dont’t see plasma-workspace as a dependecy. Output from paru:

      paru -S krunner                                                                                      ✔  41s   
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (41) kactivities-5.109.0-1  kauth-5.109.0-1  kbookmarks-5.109.0-1  kcodecs-5.109.0-1  kcompletion-5.109.0-1
              kconfig-5.109.0-1  kconfigwidgets-5.109.0-1  kcoreaddons-5.109.0-1  kcrash-5.109.0-1  kdbusaddons-5.109.0-1
              kdeclarative-5.109.0-1  kded-5.109.0-1  kglobalaccel-5.109.0-1  kguiaddons-5.109.0-1  ki18n-5.109.0-1
              kiconthemes-5.109.0-1  kio-5.109.0-2  kirigami2-5.109.0-1  kitemviews-5.109.0-1  kjobwidgets-5.109.0-1
              knotifications-5.109.0-1  kpackage-5.109.0-1  kservice-5.109.0-1  ktextwidgets-5.109.0-1  kwallet-5.109.0-1
              kwayland-5.109.0-1  kwidgetsaddons-5.109.0-1  kwindowsystem-5.109.0-1  kxmlgui-5.109.0-1
              libdbusmenu-qt5-0.9.3+16.04.20160218-6  media-player-info-24-2  plasma-framework-5.109.0-1
              polkit-qt5-0.114.0-1  qca-qt5-2.3.7-1  qt5-multimedia-5.15.10+kde+r3-1  qt5-speech-5.15.10+kde+r1-1
              qt5-wayland-5.15.10+kde+r57-1  solid-5.109.0-1  sonnet-5.109.0-1  threadweaver-5.109.0-1  krunner-5.109.0-1

Total Download Size:    41.58 MiB
Total Installed Size:  133.02 MiB

      This is still alot for one tool, but as far as I can see it will not install the whole plasma desktop again. I am running GNOME, so not sure if GNOME already brings some dependencies not mentioned in my output.

        • vojel@feddit.de
          2·
          1 year ago

          Ah I see, ragica is right. krunner bin is part of plasma-workspace, kinda misleading that there’s an own package.

          paru -Fy krunner                                                                                             
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                                          1014.4 KiB   956 KiB/s 00:01 [-------------------------------------------] 100%
 extra                                           38.2 MiB  1133 KiB/s 00:34 [-------------------------------------------] 100%
 multilib                                       215.2 KiB   391 KiB/s 00:01 [-------------------------------------------] 100%
extra/plasma-workspace 5.27.7-2 (plasma)
    usr/bin/krunner
    • wintersummerland@discuss.tchncs.deOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Tried Albert, seems very capable, alas it is considered to be a regular window in hyprland. I tried catapult from the aur. Blazing fast and does math, I found my new launcher. Thanks everyone 🙏