🖩 Do live calculations in rofi!

A rofi plugin that uses libqalculate's qalc to parse natural language input and provide results.

Since this uses libqalculate's amazing qalc you can try natural language queries such 500 + 25% or 5000 EUR to USD or 150 to hex. It can also solve linear equations on the fly. Try 60x + 30 = 50, for instance.

Run rofi like:

rofi -show calc -modi calc -no-show-match -no-sort

It's convenient to bind it to a key combination in i3. For instance, you could use:

bindsym $mod+c exec --no-startup-id "rofi -show calc -modi calc -no-show-match -no-sort"

You need rofi (version >= 1.5) as well as qalculate (version > 2.0). Some distributions ship an extremely outdated version of qalculate so you might have to compile your own.

rofi-calc in AUR

rofi-calc uses autotools as build system. If installing from git, the following steps should install it:

$ autoreconf -i
$ mkdir build
$ cd build/
$ ../configure
$ make
$ make install