[REQUEST] pass environment variables to drun-ed apps

[ildar]

Before opening a feature request

• I checked the next branch to see if the feature has already been implemented
• I searched existing reports to see if it is already requested.

What is the user problem or growth opportunity you want to see solved?

as rofi is an application launcher it must have ability to pass environment variables to drun-ed apps. This is natural

How do you know that this problem exists today? Why is this important?

this is a useful feature that's why many/most application launchers can do it. E.g. shells and (some) DEs.

Who will benefit from it?

advanced users

Rofi version (rofi -v)

1.7.2

Configuration

N/A

Additional information

No response

[DaveDavenport]

I am very confused, rofi passes all environment to the program it launches..

I've validated this using a desktop file that does:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=env
Name=Env test
Icon=Env test

and launching rofi from the terminal with a set of environment variables and checking if those are printed out.

[ildar]

Sorry for the confusion. I meant *additional* env. vars. Equivalent to the shell command: env VAR1=val1 VAR2=val2 cmd args.

[DaveDavenport]

I don't understand what you want.

This works fine:

MONK=a rofi -show drun | grep -i MONK
MONK=a

[DaveDavenport]

You claim most launchers can do this? can you show a screenshot of how you do it? that might clear things up?

[DaveDavenport]

There is nothing in the free desktop standard about this.
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/

[ildar]

On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 4:53 AM Dave Davenport wrote: You claim most launchers can do this? can you show a screenshot of how you do it? that might clear things up?

Sorry, I didn't claim **most** DEs but some DEs do this. E.g. https://wiki.hyprland.org/Configuring/Environment-variables/ . My core idea was quite simple: as an app launches other apps then it should allow customizing that action. E.g. allowing to change cmd args (that's what `rofi run` does) and environment. BTW I ended up running some apps with `rofi run` for my purposes. Thanks again for this great applaucher! and cudos to @lbonn for the Wayland support patch!

[DaveDavenport]

Ok, this feels dishonest:

Sorry, I didn't claim most DEs but some DEs do this. E.g.

While I said.

You claim most launchers can do this?

and you said in the opening post:

this is a useful feature that's why many/most application launchers can do it.

[DaveDavenport]

I do not want to continue with this anymore.