## Introduction

**Terminal Media Launcher** is a command line utility to help streamline launching applications and other media. The goal of tml is to provide a fast, minimal, command line frontend with a Unix-like approach to setup and configuration. The program looks for a configuration file listing different groups of media and creates an ncurses menu from which to select from. If a configuration file is found, the program will draw two columns: one for groups, and one for entries. At the bottom of the window, a preview of the command execution is displayed.

## Compiling and Running

tml can be compiled on any system with gcc and the ncurses library installed. It has been tested to work on Ubuntu, and can also be compiled and run on Windows 10. To compile and run tml:

1. Clone the repository
2. Run `make` in the directory the repository was cloned into. This will create a file called `tml`
3. `./tml` to run the program

Note that tml will not run until you have created a configuration file.

## Configuration File

By default, tml searches in the following order for a configuration file:

1. `$HOME/.config/tml/config`
2. `$HOME/.tml/config`
3. `config` (in the current directory)

A different configuration file location can also be specified with the `-c` flag:

```
tml -c /path/to/config
```

For Documentation of the configuration file, see [tml-config](tml-config.md)