What is ripdrag?
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.
Example.mp4
*some features like --on-top can't be ported over because of limitations in gtk4
Use cases
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 $(fzf) - can make for an amazingly quick and painless terminal experience.
Installation
Install the required dependencies
Ubuntu 22.04 or later
sudo apt install cargo libgtk-4-dev build-essential
Fedora\CentOS\RHEL
sudo dnf install cargo gdk-pixbuf2-devel pango-devel graphene-devel cargo-devel cairo-gobject-devel cairo-devel python2-cairo-devel gtk4-devel
Arch Linux
sudo pacman -Sy --needed rust gtk4 base-devel
MacOS
You need to have homebrew installed.
brew install rustup gtk4
rustup-init
NetBSD
A pre-compiled binary is available from the official repositories. To install it simply run,
pkgin install ripdrag
Install the binary
(Do not use sudo, if you don't want it to be installed on root)
cargo install ripdrag
Add cargo to path
(Not added by default)
PATH=$PATH:~/.cargo/bin
Usage
USAGE:
ripdrag [OPTIONS] [PATHS]...
ARGS:
<PATHS>... Paths to the files you want to drag
OPTIONS:
-v, --verbose Be verbose
-t, --target Act as a target instead of source
-k, --keep With --target, keep files to drag out
-p, --print-path 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 <SIZE> Size of icons and thumbnails [default: 32]
-W, --content-width <WIDTH> Min width of the main window [default: 360]
-H, --content-height <HEIGHT> Default height of the main window [default: 360]
-I, --from-stdin Accept paths from stdin
-a, --all Drag all the items together
-A, --all-compact Show only the number of items and drag them together
-h, --help Print help information
-V, --version Print version information
TODO
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 ;)