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First off, I've been using Admiral for a week now and it works incredibly well. However, it's inconvenient to have to type the entire path of the binary to be run. It would be rather convenient if Admiral took inspiration from Baskerville's SXHKD and used SHELL -c PATH (where shell is the user's default login shell, accessible through the environment variable $SHELL and PATH is the path specified in the admiral.toml) to run commands. This is beneficial for three reasons:

• We no longer have to type the entire path of the binary
• Admiral now magically supports variable expansion (so that variables like ~ and $PATH can be automatically expanded)
• The path field in the admiral.toml can be changed from an array into a string, even when passing arguments to the program. Using arrays was inconvenient anyway.

Edit: I created a pull request. PR #2 fixes this issue.

Hello,

I am using admiral and I found it amazing.
I was wondering how to reload the config file on demand, while admiral is running, without having to restart the entire X window system

Can I use

pkill -USR1 -x admiral

to reload?

I saw that signals are not suppported at the moment in Rust...

Thanks

Currently a new thread is spawned for every occurrence of every item specified in items. As thread spawning is somewhat expensive, this is not preferable. It would probably be beneficial to use a threadpool (perhaps with only a single worker) for items marked as static so as to reduce the number of threads spawned.

Is there any plan to package this into the AUR or something equivalent so it won't be required to build from source every time?

Is there a reason you don't recommend using cargo install --git? I would be happy to PR an edit to add this.