Allow custom command instead of application selection

[the-solipsist]

First off, thank you for this excellent extension.

I'd like to open up kitty, but with a custom config file using kitty --config /path/to/dropdown-kitty.conf. But as things stand, I can only select applications in the accelerator tab, and I can't provide custom commands. Could this be changed so that custom commands can be executed instead of just applications?

[eaon]

Regular kitty and "quake-mode" kitty have different configurations in my setup as well, so I concur, such a change would be useful to me as well.

As a workaround for not having this built-in to the extension, it is possible to create a custom kitty-quake-mode.desktop file in ~/.config/share/applications/. Mine looks approximately like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=kitty --class=quake --instance-group=quake --config ~/.config/kitty/dropdown.conf
Hidden=false
Name=kitty quake-mode
StartupWMClass=quake

Hope this helps!

[the-solipsist]

Thanks, @eaon. That's very helpful. Would you mind sharing the diff between your dropdown.conf and your regular kitty.conf? I'm particularly interested in knowing how you configure options like remember_window_size, hide_window_decorations, initial_window_{width,height}. (Also, I think you meant ~/.local/share/applications and not ~/.config/share/applications.)

[the-solipsist]

Update: I tried the new desktop entry option, but that leads to a bunch of issues:

1. Using a custom desktop entry kills the functionality of making the terminal disappear when you press the accelerator key (F12, in my case) a second time.
2. The terminal doesn't show up as per the size and with the orientation provided in the settings for quake-mode.
3. I get a notification that says: launch kitty-quake-mode.desktop timeout.

I'm using EndeavourOS (Arch-based) with Gnome 44.4.