Soon also on the aur repo and manjaro repo.
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I know, that’s why I was in such a hurry… Mabox first 
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Forum Scout v0.3.3 is out.
Main changes since the last release:
- “loading suggestions…” indicator in the status bar while suggestions fetch
- Suggestion dropdown now opens automatically when results arrive
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Forum scout v0.3.4 is out.
- Constrain completion popup width to window
Dropdown for suggestions is truncated to fit the screen.
Can be annoying. Non trivial.
YEAH !!!
Forum Scout now officialy available in repo:
- Mabox # thanks to @napcok
- Manjaro # thanks to @Yochanan
- Aur # thanks to @Yochanan
yay forum-scout
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Congratulations @muzqs, you are famous now 
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haha the vote = me . I am not the maintainer at the moment so could give a vote.
I think thats pr
I initially installed via the install script:
git clone GitHub - musqz/forum-scout: Arch Focussed Forum Search Tool · GitHub
cd forum-scout
./install.sh
Did the:
yay forum-scout
as you can see, yay shows - 2 maboxlinux/forum-scout 0.3.4-1 (23.2 KiB 72.5 KiB) (Installed)
but when I launch the program and hit the about tab…
Wut do?
Nevermind: I ran the uninstall.sh script in the initial git clone folder and redid the yay command and it fixed it.
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@muzqs , thank you very much for this super handy tool.
A great idea and implementation.
I will add it the next release of Mabox (together with jumpapp)
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FYI…
[FUN STUFF]
Hacking forum-scout for your own forums
Want to swap out a distro forum for one that fits you better?
It’s one line of code.
Open forum-scout.py and find the FORUMS list near the top (~line 49). Each entry
looks like this:
{"name": "Mabox", "type": "discourse", "url": "https://forum.maboxlinux.org",
"color": "#c49000", "on": True, "group": "distro"},
To replace Mabox with NixOS for example, just change it to:
{"name": "NixOS", "type": "discourse", "url": "https://discourse.nixos.org",
"color": "#5277c3", "on": True, "group": "distro"},
That’s it. As long as the forum runs Discourse, “type”: “discourse” works out of the box — no other changes needed.
To add a new entry instead of replacing, just paste a new line in the list.
Pick any hex color you like for that forum.
The “group” field controls which row it appears in:
- “distro” — top row
- “wiki” — middle row
- “de” — bottom row (KDE, GNOME style)
Works for any Discourse-based forum on the internet.
Have fun!
release update: v0.4.0
What’s Changed
- Add multi-select delete and Del key support for bookmarks
- Add ‘Don’t ask again’ checkbox to bulk delete confirmation
- Added KDE and GNOME forums to the list.
- Move shortcuts to ? popover, compact About tab, reduce default window…
Forum-Scout (Gtk) v0.5.0
Forum-Scout (Qt) v.0.5.0
yay forum-scout
4 aur/forum-scout-qt 0.5.0-1 (+0 0.00)
Arch-focused multi-forum search tool (Qt/PyQt6 edition)
3 extra/forum-scout 0.4.0-1 (49.9 KiB 76.0 KiB)
Arch focused forum search tool
2 maboxlinux/forum-scout 0.3.4-1 (23.2 KiB 72.5 KiB)
Multi-forum search tool for Arch-based distros (GTK3)
1 aur/forum-scout 0.4.0-1 (+1 1.00)
Arch focused forum search tool
==> Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3 or ^4)
==>
forum-scout-qt
forum-scout
Fun fact.
This is one the first playing around a while ago.
I mainly start with bash and tui formats. When I feel this can go to somewhere I start thinking of a GUI. Yad for me. From there to Python.
Hi @napcok
Version v0.5.4 is ready.
forum-scout v0.3.4 → v0.5.4 changelog
New sources
- KDE and GNOME forums added
- CachyOS Wiki added
Bookmarks
- Multi-select delete with Del key + “don’t ask again” option
- Undo last bookmark deletion via Ctrl+Z or status bar button
Search results
- Multi-select to open or bookmark multiple results at once
- Full keyboard navigation
UI
- Keyboard shortcuts moved to ? popover
- More compact About tab, smaller default window size
- Window titlebar icon
Removed
- XFCE forum (server broken, search returns only stale results)
Latest releases both Gtk / QT
One of the obvious changes
- Able to add custom forums/wiki/ddg to the menu (gtk/qt) – I am working on a kinda how to.
- Good for mouse and key driven flows.
- Undo for last removed bookmark
- For full changelog, visit github
Help !!! No forums in the menu?
cp /usr/share/forum-scout/forums.conf ~/.config/forum-scout/forums.conf
# Forum Scout — forum registry
# One entry per line. Fields:
# name display name (required)
# type discourse | mediawiki | ddg (required)
# url base URL (required)
# color hex color for the checkbox label (required)
# on true/false — default checkbox state (default: true)
# group distro | wiki | de — which row in the forums bar (default: distro)
# page mediawiki only — URL template for article links (optional)
#
# To add or remove forums, edit this file directly.
# To keep your changes across package upgrades, copy this file to:
# ~/.config/forum-scout/forums.conf
#
{"name": "Mabox", "type": "discourse", "url": "https://forum.maboxlinux.org", "color": "#c49000", "on": true, "group": "distro"}
{"name": "EndeavourOS", "type": "discourse", "url": "https://forum.endeavouros.com", "color": "#0891b2", "on": true, "group": "distro"}
{"name": "Manjaro", "type": "discourse", "url": "https://forum.manjaro.org", "color": "#16a34a", "on": true, "group": "distro"}
{"name": "CachyOS", "type": "discourse", "url": "https://discuss.cachyos.org", "color": "#7c3aed", "on": true, "group": "distro"}
{"name": "Garuda", "type": "discourse", "url": "https://forum.garudalinux.org", "color": "#db2777", "on": true, "group": "distro"}
{"name": "RebornOS", "type": "discourse", "url": "https://rebornos.discourse.group", "color": "#dc2626", "on": true, "group": "distro"}
{"name": "Arch Wiki", "type": "mediawiki", "url": "https://wiki.archlinux.org", "color": "#2563eb", "on": true, "group": "wiki"}
{"name": "Manjaro Wiki", "type": "mediawiki", "url": "https://wiki.manjaro.org", "color": "#22c55e", "on": true, "group": "wiki", "page": "index.php?title={slug}"}
{"name": "CachyOS Wiki", "type": "ddg", "url": "wiki.cachyos.org", "color": "#7c3aed", "on": true, "group": "wiki"}
{"name": "Arch BBS", "type": "ddg", "url": "bbs.archlinux.org", "color": "#ea580c", "on": false, "group": "wiki"}
{"name": "KDE", "type": "discourse", "url": "https://discuss.kde.org", "color": "#1d99f3", "on": true, "group": "de"}
{"name": "GNOME", "type": "discourse", "url": "https://discourse.gnome.org", "color": "#3584e4", "on": true, "group": "de"}
Xfce4 forum had a problem, but it is possible now.
Edit ~/.config/forum-scout/forums.conf
Add xfce4 wiki
{"name": "XFCE4", "type": "ddg", "url": "https://forum.xfce.org/", "color": "#ea580c", "on": false, "group": "wiki"}
Artix forum this way
{"name": "Artix", "type": "ddg", "url": "https://forum.artixlinux.org/", "color": "#c6b9d8", "on": false, "group": "wiki"}
In a future release this will be added to the default.