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?
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/usr/bin/krunnerexecutable is owned by theplasma-workspacepackage. 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.
I dont’t see
plasma-workspaceas 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 MiBThis 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.
I have the krunner package installed, though I cannot run it in a console anymore as in- “$ krunner” command not found
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
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 🙏
Thanks, I ll take albert into consideration
I don’t think there is. The Krunner binary is part of the plasma-desktop and it will likely require some dependencies and libraries usually installed through that package.
Do you need Krunner as a generic applauncher or do you use other features too?
I use the maths functionality and find the unit conversion handy to have, though I admit I cannot remember using it ;)
If you tinker with programming , you can look into ags - aylurs gnome shell. His dotfiles include an app launcher in it, adding this functionality should not be too hard.
Hi! I think if you wanted to avoid installing the entire set of plasma dependencies again (at least to your hyprland environment), you could theoretically stuff a minimal plasma install into a distrobox container/guest and export the needed krunner binaries back to the hyprland host/environment. The distrobox repo. has some more information that might help accomplish that. specifically export to the host and executing commands on the host may be of interest to you! ^ - ^
Did you try a simple pacman -S krunner?
Yes, it does not supply the krunner executable
