What is elephant?

Elephant is a headless data-provider and executor service that acts as a shared backend for building custom application launchers and desktop utilities on Linux. It aggregates data from a plugin-based set of providers (apps, files, clipboard, Bluetooth, calculator, package search, and more) and exposes them over Unix sockets using Protocol Buffers, so a separate frontend like Walker can query it and render results. On its own, without a frontend and provider plugins installed, it does nothing visible.

Install elephant on Omarchy

official Omarchy package command

$ omarchy pkg add elephant

Good to know

A frontend launcher (such as Walker) to actually see and use its results
Individual provider plugins for the data sources you want (apps, files, clipboard, etc.) — the base package alone has none installed
A systemd-based Linux environment is expected, though it can run standalone

Package details

Pricing: GPLv3 licensed
Licence: GPL
Download: 8.5 MB
Installed: 21.9 MB

Project site ↗PKGBUILD ↗