aaronayub / dropit

Lightweight drag-and-drop panel to add functionality to terminal-based file managers. Written in GTK+.

Dropit

A lightweight, GTK-based drag-and-drop panel meant to be used with command-line file managers.

Installation

To install this project, run the following.

meson setup build
sudo ninja -C build install

If you only want to build the project, but not install it on your machine, run the following.

meson setup build && ninja -C build

This will create the executable file 'dropit' in the build directory.

Usage

After installing the program, the program can be run with dropit {...FILES}, where the argument is a list of files for which the drag-and-drop panel is created. You may provide the command line option "-a" or "--autoclose" to automatically close the application after a drag-drop operation.

Build Requirements

• GTK >= 4.8.0
• meson

License

Copyright (C) 2023-2024 Aaron Ayub

This project and its source code is made available under the GNU GPL version 3.0 only.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.