feat: toggle Cerebro search from the command line

[jreus]

• I am on the latest Cerebro.app version

• I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate

• OS version and name: Linux Mint 19.04

• Cerebro.app version: Latest Release

Issue

I would like to know if it's possible at all to toggle cerebro using the command line? e.g. with something like

$ cerebro toggle

This would be wonderful, because I prefer to use Super+Space as my launch command (immitating Spotlight on OSX). However, on Linux Mint 19.04 you have to hit space twice before Cerebro will "catch" the command. I've experienced this issue before with apps that try to use global hotkeys and the work-around is to create a custom system-wide shortcut; but to do that you need a terminal command that can be invoked by the shortcut.

[ogustavo-pereira]

@jreus I don't know a way to trigger the cerebroapp through the terminal.

Never tried to do that with electron

[dubisdev]

Electron supports adding protocolos to an app. In our config web have
https://github.com/cerebroapp/cerebro/blob/master/electron-builder.json#L4-L9

This means if you open

cerebro://something

Cerebro is triggered.

We could add something like

cerebro://toggle

And, as a workaround, a bash script like
open cerebro://toggle could do the trick

This is just for documenting, I'm currently working on other issues 🙌

[violin0622]

I'm sorry for bothering but what's the status for this feature?
I noticed it was removed from v0.11.0 milestone.
Will it be released in future ?

[ogustavo-pereira]

we have not mapped when this feature came out

[replete]

Global keyboard shortcuts don't seem to work properly in Wayland / gnome. What seems to be the workaround generally is to assign a hotkey in gnome settings > keyboard shortcuts to a toggle command (e.g. cerebro toggle or cerebro-toggle). Not sure how anyone is using this with Wayland without a way to trigger the app to appear with a command.