commit ff4b78a84624b5663f75b7e4336b6f0fab8f4193
parent a749b342914c850fad6cade6bcf462ff2766b186
Author: Jeff <dev@watertao.xyz>
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2026 13:04:31 -0800
Better install instructions
Diffstat:
| M | README | | | 44 | ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ |
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README b/README
@@ -78,25 +78,33 @@ shell program works is outlined below.
Install
-------
Clone the git repo.
+
+ $ git clone git://watertao.xyz/programs/tao_shells.git
+
cd into tao_shells directory.
-cp the files into your user's local bin. The following should do it:
- a=~/.local/bin/; for i in *.sh; do cp $i $a$i; chmod a+x $a$i; done
+ $ cd tao_shells
+
+cp the files into your user's local bin. Assuming ~/.local/bin it your
+user executable directory, following should do it:
+
+ $ a=~/.local/bin/; for i in *.sh; do cp $i $a$i; chmod a+x $a$i; done
Check that ~/.local/bin is in your PATH env. If you already are setup
with a user local executable path, just be sure to install the shells
respectively.
-Also, see TERMINAL in the tao_url.conf and env vars section below.
+Also, see TERMINAL in the Environment Variables section below.
Based on the requirements that suit your need, install any programs
and/or configure the tao_opener.conf file accordingly. See
tao_opener.conf section below.
+
### Rofi
-If using rofi, you'll definitely need to set some flags for rofi to work
-well. After your initial run of tao_url.sh which will have created the
-tao config directory, the following command should do the trick:
+If using rofi, you'll need to set some flags for rofi to work well.
+After your initial run of tao_url.sh which will have created the tao
+config directory, the following command should do the trick:
Likely most window tiling manager environments:
@@ -380,24 +388,24 @@ wget downloads url first, then program selected opens it.
DL_OPT
-Same as DL, but offered as an interactive option. This is useful with mpv for
-example, where you can opt to not download and just run the url with mpv,
-whereupon the video is streamed. Or you can choose to download first then play
-locally. Each has their advantages.
+Same as DL, but offered as an interactive option. This is useful with
+mpv for example, where you can opt to not download and just run the url
+with mpv, whereupon the video is streamed. Or you can choose to download
+first then play locally. Each has their advantages.
MEDIA_PLAYER
-Sets the program as the yt/mpv media player where the entire program call
-including options and flags is used to run the downloaded youtube video. Only
-one program is used with this tag, if multiple programs are tagged with this,
-the first in the list is used. If the tag isn't used, the default player is
-mpv.
+Sets the program as the yt/mpv media player where the entire program
+call including options and flags is used to run the downloaded youtube
+video. Only one program is used with this tag, if multiple programs are
+tagged with this, the first in the list is used. If the tag isn't used,
+the default player is mpv.
TERM
-Launch the program in a terminal. Text browsers such as w3m are fine candidates
-of this tag. If you wish to monitor the stdout/err msgs from any program, this
-tag is useful.
+Launch the program in a terminal. Text browsers such as w3m are fine
+candidates of this tag. If you wish to monitor the stdout/err msgs from
+any program, this tag is useful.
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