I was wondering if there was a way to use npm API directly vs npms.io.

Every time I create/update a plugin, it takes a long time for npms.io to figure it out..

At the time of this writing, npms.io has not yet figured out that this repo has been published: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cerebro-osx-eject
And this one is on v1.0.1: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cerebro-hash

Find a way to read file icon on Windows

please include settings to change translator service to other popular online translators. Yandex is very limited in language support. (very few languages)

Would like the option for cerebro to hide when the window loses focus, for example;

1. Open cerebro
2. Click on another window
3. cerebro hides

При запуске вижу только белую полосу и иконка в панеле инструментов. Ни настроки ни само приложение не рабоет.
Mac Book pro mid 2012 el capitan
Node v7.0.0 && NPM 3.10.8

would be great to have a shortcut that instead of opening the link in browser, would just copy the link of it to clipboard (and close app)

for example, search for a gif, imdb movie or anything else, instead of pressing 'Enter' to open in browser, press 'Shift Enter' to copy link to clipboard to immediately share in IM or social media or elsewhere.

I sometimes see missing obvious apps in the search results, like this:

Obviously missing the actual App Store.app – only finding the prefpane.

Warning: setState(...): Can only update a mounted or mounting component. This usually means you called setState() on an unmounted component. This is a no-op. Please check the code for the Preload component.

Looks like promise needs to be cancelled in unMount;
https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/12/16/ismounted-antipattern.html

Find a way to get list of all installed applications on Windows

I just downloaded the windows release and I get two dialog popups:

The program can't start because node.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.

The other dialog states (comes after I click OK on the first one):

The program can't start because ffmpeg.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.

Window hides on enter ✅

REPRO

1. Open cerebro window
2. Type "anything"
3. Hit enter

EXPECTED & ACTUAL
Browser opens, cerebro hides

Window does not hide on enter ❌

REPRO

1. Open cerebro window
2. Type "anything"
3. Arrow over to suggestion list
4. Hit enter

EXPECTED
Browser opens, cerebro hides

ACTUAL
Browser opens, cerebro stays open

Are there any plans on not strictly requiring npm? Wanted to add some enhancements to cerebro, but yarn install fails with AssertionError: Current node version is not supported for development because (what I assume) NPM is required.

Would be cool to have the option to use the preferred package manager.

It shows a white frame/tile when I open, does not show any UI. The VMs have 3D acceleration enabled, any idea what could be the issue?

Cerebro does not display icons for applications and preferences on MacOS

Probably the reason is in that the apps in MacOS are folders. In the apps/index.js uses path for icon which is in this case is dir. Real icon is bit deeper AppName.app/Contents/Resources/*.icns

"Spotify", "Slack" no app can be found when I type the exact name.

Windows 10
Cerebro: 0.2.3
No plugins installed

Is it feasible to package this as a chrome extension?

This would make it possible to run on chromeOS too.

Right now plugins are OS-ignorant and pretty hard coded for osx. Would be good to have a scheme where by the correct os-specific plugin is chosen for a certain feature

current:

the search result would be cleared after toggling cerebro with shortcut

expected:

result should not be cleared.

It's better to change the color of the tray icon to white

Download image (96% white):

image

On Windows, the symbols for Mac keyboard are still present and in use instead of ALT, CTRL, Super key, etc...

This could create confusion for new users that aren't familiar with Mac keyboards.

Hello, I was looking for a better alternative for Alfred on windows. After trying all the available software, I liked Cerebro and Wox Launcher. But an important feature missing in Cerebro is system wide file search. Wox launcher has this feature by using Everything plugin. I suggest same can be done for Cerebro.

When I toggle Cerebro in full-screen mode search window shows up on Desktop instead of current window.

It is expected to have search window on the top of current application like Spotlight does.
Is it relatively easy fix?

I would like to help if you can point me to the code I can start my investigations from.

On the latest build, running either dev or build && start results in the application launching, and the main window displayed as a thin bar with no text entry visible. Clicking in the box or typing doesn't seem to do anything, the bar remains white.

The application's icon menu toggles visibility on and off, however Plugins and Preferences just display the empty white bar if the application wasn't already visible. Quit Cerebro works :)

Tested on both OSX El Capitan & Windows 10.

Hi!
First of all - congrats on an awesome project!
I wanted to contribute a plugin to support results from Everthing by voidtools (a great file indexer on Windows) and wrote a plugin https://github.com/reflog/cerebro-plugin-everything
But I cannot test it well, since the instructions are very Mac oriented and don't work in Windows land.
Opening dev tools doesn't work, since they are shown like this:

And there is no way (that I could find) to see console output from my plugin.

What's your recommended way of debugging on Windows?
Also - how can I mark my plugin as 'windows only' so that other platform users would avoid it?

Cerebro has a lot of plugins, but most used of them is searching and launching applications. There is a plugin to do it on OSx.

Now we need to add a plugin to do the same on linux, so we need:

1. Find a way to get list of all installed applications and cache this list;
2. This list should contain human-friendly name of application and path to this application to run it;
3. Later we should find a way to display application icon in list.

Steps to reproduce on mac os sierra:

1. switch chrome (for example) to fullscreen mode
2. try to toggle cerebro
3. ???
4. switch to default workspace
5. cerebro is visible for second

Contacts does not seem to be providing any results or appearing at all

Hi cerebro team,

Any way to change the default language for Translate? It's defaulting from English to Russian. Can we change the default destination language?

Just installed cerebro on Arch Linux and this happened:

cat: /var/lib/dbus/machine-id: No such file or directory
A JavaScript error occurred in the main process
Uncaught Exception:
Error: Command failed: cat /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
cat: /var/lib/dbus/machine-id: No such file or directory

    at checkExecSyncError (child_process.js:495:13)
    at execSync (child_process.js:535:13)
    at childProcess.(anonymous function) (ELECTRON_ASAR.js:685:22)
    at c (/tmp/.mount_wzwsP7/usr/bin/resources/app.asar/main.js:309:7107)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/tmp/.mount_wzwsP7/usr/bin/resources/app.asar/main.js:283:100)
    at __webpack_require__ (/tmp/.mount_wzwsP7/usr/bin/resources/app.asar/main.js:21:30)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/tmp/.mount_wzwsP7/usr/bin/resources/app.asar/main.js:159:20)
    at __webpack_require__ (/tmp/.mount_wzwsP7/usr/bin/resources/app.asar/main.js:21:30)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/tmp/.mount_wzwsP7/usr/bin/resources/app.asar/main.js:52:22)
    at __webpack_require__ (/tmp/.mount_wzwsP7/usr/bin/resources/app.asar/main.js:21:30)

I solved it by creating a sym link to the file that actually was located at /etc/machine-id instead of /var/lib/dbus/machine-id

Please consider implementing command bypass to terminal, so that when you type in something like:
> cd desktop

1. terminal (cmd.exe on windows) would open up and
2. the code would get passed there

It's a very helpful feature in Wox which is an alternative to cerebro.

• an option to prevent it from closing after command execution would be very handy, as well as
• an option to show the list of the recent commands

And I don't see any plugin except translate and calc.

For example, I don't see the ip plugin

And gif plugin.

Do I need to install anything?

Although very useful built in features, it would be good to have a toggle to disable/enable the default search and translate plugins. Those concerned with privacy may not like use Google/Yandex.

I will try to work on a duckduckgo search implementation.

Expect to see search line in active monitor instead of

Works on mac, not on windows - file changes do not trigger a bundle rebuild.

Will be nice to have a team in the Slack for discussing and syncs tasks/bug fixes.
Possible some other alternative (Gitter?) to the Slack, but I personally prefer the Slack :)

Trying to find&launch /Users/flamefork/Development/tizen-studio/TizenStudio.app.

Quick comparison with Spotlight:

Cerebro should be able to search for applications using first letters (ie searching for lol should yield League of Legends). Spotlight does this.

Please add option to replace google with Qwant, DuckDuckGo, and WolframAlpha

Find a way to read file icon on Linux

When running the AppImage on Arch Linux, after making it executable, I get the following error:

/tmp/.mount_NUsefC/AppRun: line 77: 21426 Aborted (core dumped) LD_LIBRARY_PATH="" zenity --question --title="$TITLE" --text="$TEXT" 2> /dev/null

This is using the latest release, 0.2.3.

It looks like only Google search and Yandex translate are available right now. It'd be nice to have DuckDuckGo search as an option, for example.

I briefly saw icons included in the latest commits - possibly the reason why the icon is displayed low quality in windows now;

Hi,
I can't find the document for writing the plugin.
Is there are plan to start writing the document?
Thanks.

In a 2 monitor setup, Cerebro is aligned on the left of the second monitor each time it's ran. This occurs with Cerebro 0.2.3 in Ubuntu 16.10 64bit.

Hi ! This looks really awesome, thanks for this work !

I installed cerebro and I wanted to try some plugin but I couldn't find how to do that.

Can add few lines about that in the README ?

Or if it's really simple just reply to this issue but I think it might help others :)

Thanks

I was looking at the details of a plugin and clicked on a link within those details and it took over the entire app, making it into a single use browser window (with no navigation). The only way to get back to being able to type in the search bar again is to close the app and reopen it..

I think links within the preview should automatically open in the users default browser so that this doesn't happen.

Add dark OS X theme

We are looking for someone who use Cerebro and interested in improving this app. If you are a designer or you know someone, who can help – let's discuss it here!