tut_final2.mp4

bookmark.sh is simply two scripts which saves a bookmarks and retrieve a bookmark. The idea is to have a global bookmark file to use anywhere you want not just a specific browser, also some browser dose not offer sync option.

Installation

• The two scripts allows you to choose between dmenu and rofi, that can be done through the variable METHOD
• dmenu by default does not grab keyboard output and return it (as far as i know), but I got you covered you can apply the provided patch file with the following command

$ cd path_to_dmenu/
$ git apply path_to_patch/dmenu-userinputtext-20230225-db84b38.diff 
$ make
$ sudo make clean install

It will display some warnings, it is fine. you can test the patch through the command

$ dmenu -t 

It shall draw dmenu, write something and you can see it returned. The previous behavior is very useful in typing the titles of the bookmarks or the name of the field.

bind the scripts to keyboard shortcuts

i3wm

• First make the scripts executable

$ chmod +x path_to_bookmark_scripts/bookmarkthis.sh
$ chmod +x path_to_bookmark_scripts/getbookmark.sh

• Then add this lines to your i3wm config if you are using it

## bookmarks scripts
bindsym $mod+bracketright exec --no-startup-id path_to_bookmark_scripts/getbookmark.sh
bindsym $mod+bracketleft  exec --no-startup-id path_to_bookmark_scripts/bookmarkthis.sh

Usage

You can refer to the video above to see how you can use the scripts.

save bookmark

1- you copied some link which you want to bookmark 2- click the shortcut you assigned to bookmarkthis.sh 3- choose field or add a new one 4- type the title of of the bookmark or leave it blank

get bookmark

1- just click the shortcut you assigned to getbookmark.sh 2- choose the field which the bookmark is under 3- choose bookmark 4- The url only copied to clipboard , also url can be automatically typed where the text cursor occur you can set it on by changing the value of TYPE=1 instead of TYPE=0

To do

• function to convert the bookmark file to a browsers-compatible HTML file