Remmina

[bashfulrobot]

Is there a way to open a remmina connection by name with Albert?

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Is there a way to do it form the start menu? If not, then albert wont do it. Atm there are just a bunch of plugins. They are listed in the preferences. Remmina is not part of it. You could create a desktop file that accomplishes what you want and put it into ~/.local/share/applications.
Regards

[bashfulrobot]

Worked like a charm. Thanks! Not very scalable for a number of connections. Might be a good plugin to develop (was looking for plugin docs).

[bashfulrobot]

Not overly elegant, but here is a shell script to create the desktop apps.

`
#!/bin/bash

#Create applications for each shortcut in the ~/.remmina dir.

#Config

CUT_EXE="/usr/bin/cut"
WHEREIS_EXE="/usr/bin/whereis"
REMMINA_DIR="/full/path/to/.remmina"
APP_DIR="/full/path/to/Albert-Applications"
BACKUP_DIR="$APP_DIR/Backups"

#Static VARS

REMMINA_EXE=$WHEREIS_EXE remmina | $CUT_EXE -d " " -f2
RSYNC_EXE=$WHEREIS_EXE rsync | $CUT_EXE -d " " -f2
RM_EXE=$WHEREIS_EXE rm | $CUT_EXE -d " " -f2
ECHO_EXE=$WHEREIS_EXE echo | $CUT_EXE -d " " -f2
GREP_EXE=$WHEREIS_EXE grep | $CUT_EXE -d " " -f2

#Functions

#Pull the name from the remmina connections
function getName {
local theName=$GREP_EXE -w "name" $1 | cut -d = -f2
$ECHO_EXE $theName
}

#Write the App from a template
function createApp {

#$1 = name
#$2 = path to remmina exe
#$3 = path to remmina dir
#$4 = remmina file name

cat << TMPLT
#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Icon[en_CA]=remmina
Name[en_CA]=$1
Exec=$2 -c $3/$4
Comment[en_CA]=Used to Launch Remmina session through Albert launcher
Name=$1
Comment=Used to Launch Remmina session through Albert launcher
Icon=remmina
TMPLT

}

#Main Actions

#Clean up and update connections

if [ ! -d $BACKUP_DIR ]; then
$MKDIR_EXE -p $BACKUP_DIR
fi

$ECHO_EXE
$ECHO_EXE "Backup previous connections..."
$ECHO_EXE
$RSYNC_EXE -a -v $APP_DIR/.desktop $BACKUP_DIR
$ECHO_EXE
$ECHO_EXE "Backup completed to $BACKUP_DIR."
$ECHO_EXE
$RM_EXE -f $APP_DIR/.desktop

for f in $REMMINA_DIR/*.remmina; do
myName=$(getName $f)
echo "creating an app for: $myName"
createApp $myName $REMMINA_EXE $REMMINA_DIR $f > $APP_DIR/$myName.desktop
done
$ECHO_EXE

exit 0
`

[bashfulrobot]

I had an error in my script. Here is the corrected one. Be careful, the formatting for the script is messed up because the "" is used to signify code, but is also used in the variables that use whereis to dynamically fill the path (i.e. - "REMMINA_EXE=$WHEREIS_EXE remmina | $CUT_EXE -d " " -f2`"

I'll escape them for proper formatting in this page.

#Create applications for each shortcut in the ~/.remmina dir.

#Config

CUT_EXE="/usr/bin/cut"
WHEREIS_EXE="/usr/bin/whereis"
REMMINA_DIR="/full/path/to/.remmina"
APP_DIR="/full/path/to/Albert-Applications"
BACKUP_DIR="$APP_DIR/Backups"

#Static VARS

REMMINA_EXE=`$WHEREIS_EXE remmina | $CUT_EXE -d " " -f2`
RSYNC_EXE=`$WHEREIS_EXE rsync | $CUT_EXE -d " " -f2`
RM_EXE=`$WHEREIS_EXE rm | $CUT_EXE -d " " -f2`
ECHO_EXE=`$WHEREIS_EXE echo | $CUT_EXE -d " " -f2`
GREP_EXE=`$WHEREIS_EXE grep | $CUT_EXE -d " " -f2`

#Functions

#Pull the name from the remmina connections
function getName {
    local theName=`$GREP_EXE -w "name" $1 | cut -d = -f2`
    $ECHO_EXE $theName
}

#Write the App from a template
function createApp {

 #$1 = name
 #$2 = path to remmina exe
 #$3 = remmina file name

 cat << TMPLT
 #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
 [Desktop Entry]
 Version=1.0
 Type=Application
 Terminal=false
 Icon[en_CA]=remmina
 Name[en_CA]=$1
 Exec=$2 -c $3
 Comment[en_CA]=Used to Launch Remmina session through Albert launcher
 Name=$1
 Comment=Used to Launch Remmina session through Albert launcher
 Icon=remmina
TMPLT

}

#Main Actions

#Clean up and update connections

if [ ! -d $BACKUP_DIR ]; then
  $MKDIR_EXE -p $BACKUP_DIR
fi

$ECHO_EXE
$ECHO_EXE "Backup previous connections..."
$ECHO_EXE
$RSYNC_EXE -a -v $APP_DIR/_.desktop $BACKUP_DIR
$ECHO_EXE
$ECHO_EXE "Backup completed to $BACKUP_DIR."
$ECHO_EXE
$RM_EXE -f $APP_DIR/_.desktop

for f in $REMMINA_DIR/*.remmina; do
    myName=$(getName $f)
    echo "creating an app for: $myName"
    createApp $myName $REMMINA_EXE $f > $APP_DIR/$myName.desktop
done
$ECHO_EXE

exit 0

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Well this is still a valid issue. Reopening...

[idkCpp]

@dnichk Is this still a thing?
On my fork I have written a small extension for albert that does this. I didn't test this extension very thoroughly.

[bashfulrobot]

@idkCpp - Just curious - why the fork?

[idkCpp]

I'm sorry but I don't understand your question. I'm no dev on this repo. So I have no push permission

[ManuelSchneid3r]

If anybody is interested in implementing this request: There is now a Python embedding extension.

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Okay guys, I dont use Remmia so its up to you to make things happen. There are several ways to extend albert. Have a try. It shouldnt be more than 50 LOC.

[ManuelSchneid3r]

we have one here #1022

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Closing this one. I put the request on the wiki.