i made an app launcher in <6 hoursPublished at 05-07-2025 (22:20:10)

👉 check rnux out on github : https://github.com/TheUnium/rnux

Hi guys! I totally forgot I had this blog thing. I've been busy because of school for the last month or so, so I haven't had the time to either update this blog or make anything interesting. However, as my summer holidays were close to ending, I decided to finally make a few projects.

Project #1 - 😱 Something something, horror.

I was bored and watching Youtube, and I stumbled upon a video reviewing the movie "The Ritual" (you can view it @ Netflix), and I decided to just watch the movie instead of the review a few minutes into the video. I didn't regret the decision at all. Amazing movie (frfr ong). It wasn't the best, there were a few parts where the dialogue was meh, but that's beside the point.

Anyways, I randomly got inspiration to work on a game because of this movie. I haven't made much progress on the game yet, but I feel like this was worth mentioning as this game is the first project I've worked on since bloggy. So far, I've made:

• A very simple movement system with stamina and what not
• Audio stuff (footstep, heartbeat, etc.)
• A fear system (basically, higher fear = higher stamina, but lower running/walking speeds. Also makes the heartbeat louder!)

I won't say much because well... there isn't much to say. It's made with Unity3D, my beloved (not really). As much hate Unity gets, I have to admit that the engine itself is pretty solid. The company is not the greatest to say the least but the product itself is amazing in my opinion.

Project #2 - 🚀 rnux

This is the cool one :)
Once again, I was bored and watching Youtube and I saw a video in my recommended, which was a showcase of Raycasts' windows port. This unfortunately gave me inspiration to make something similar. So, I made rnux. It's an app launcher. It looks good. That's kind of it. Other than that, it is pretty broken and janky.

The main reason why it is so broken and janky is mainly because rnux was made in only <6 hours in a single day. It's made in C++ (the 🐐), it uses Qt6, and it's X11 only. Mainly because I still have PTSD from Wayland from back when it was horrendous to use on plasma.

Right now, it's not very mature, because again, <6 hours of development, however it does have a few nice features:

• It can... launch apps. Truly revolutionary
• It can calculate basic arithmetic operations
• It can search online
• For a few online services (GitHub (gh), NPM (npm), and Cargo (cargo)), it can even fetch the top 10 results and show it without you having to leave
• It can run a few system commands (like shutdown, lock, etc.)
• Fuzzy searching

Anyways...

That's pretty much it. I've been busy with studying for the last month, our summer holidays started and I felt like it was a good time to prepare for our board exams, and that's why I've not been able to work on my existing projects or create anything cool recently. I will probably be pretty inactive for most of this year, but I'll try to work on a project every once in a while.