Ulauncher: Wider search box?

[sscarduzio]

Sometimes results are long strings, and are not legible

How can we configure the width of the search box? Where is it defined in the themes? Is there a CSS selector?

Thank you!

[mahmadmujtaba]

You can find help from Ulauncher documentation to write extension.

http://docs.ulauncher.io/en/latest/themes/themes.html

[bjesus]

@mahmadmujtaba the page you linked to specifically says "You can only change colors in themes. Changing element sizes won’t be possible due to quirky GTK+ API.". How is this a solution to having a wider search box?

Would be great to know if someone managed to actually have a wider widget.

[sscarduzio]

Yeah me too i gave up after asking this :(

[bjesus]

Seems like you can manually edit /usr/share/ulauncher/ui/UlauncherWindow.ui and change width_request from 604 to whatever you want.

[sscarduzio]

Worked enlarging the result box, but the title gets shortened :facepalm:

So I had to edit by hand another file:

sudo nano /usr/share/ulauncher/ui/result_item.ui

 <object class="GtkLabel" id="item-name">
                    <property name="width_request">410</property>  <--- changed his to 1000
                    <property name="visible">True</property>
...

and the description field too:
```xml
                <child>
                  <object class="GtkLabel" id="item-descr">
                    <property name="width_request">410</property> <--- set to 1000 too
                    <property name="visible">True</property>
                    <property name="can_focus">False</property>
                    <property name="ellipsize">middle</property>

So now it FINALLY looks ok

please consider making title and description expand to fill the available space, and make the search box width configurable