i3
A fork of the i3 window manager with gaps and some other features. :warning: i3-gaps has been merged into i3. (by Airblader)
rofi
Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement (by davatorium)
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| i3 | rofi | |
|---|---|---|
| 74 | 152 | |
| 6,017 | 12,430 | |
| - | 1.9% | |
| 6.3 | 8.5 | |
| over 1 year ago | 5 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
i3
Posts with mentions or reviews of i3.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-11.
- help i3/i3-gaps packages broken (i think)
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i3-gaps
why would you get a version that, by the author, has been archived: https://github.com/Airblader/i3
- The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3
rofi
Posts with mentions or reviews of rofi.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-27.
- Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
- macOS Command-Line Tools You Might Not Know About
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What is the appeal of the 'start menu' in so many desktop environments?
You'll probably like rofi.
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Possible to filter clipboard when using `unamedplus`?
Also, I use this script so that Rofi will show my clipboard instead of the native klipper UI (because it's far less keyboard friendly). Normally the script works great, but the script chokes whenever I `dd` an empty line or a lone `\`, putting an empty entry on my clipboard, which the wrapper than assumes means I'm at the end of the list of clipboard entries.
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Rofi dry run
Which rofi you run? The original one from https://github.com/davatorium/rofi (which is Xorg base, so it has to start XWayland) or the Wayland-based fork on https://github.com/lbonn/rofi?
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Cozytile - A Cozy Qtile Rice
OS: Arch Linux WM: Qtile Panel: Qtile bar Launcher: Rofi Notification Daemon: Dunst Terminal: Alacritty Shell: Zsh Compositor: Picom File Manager: Nemo Music Player: Spotify & ncmpcpp
- [Manjaro Linux] Manjaro + XFCE + ROFI + DRACULA THÈME
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What's your recommended launcher app in your opinion?
I like rofi (super flexible, i also use it as a custom alt-tab option in openbox) and wofi is a nice option on wayland
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xfce workplace switcher in polybar
Modi are covered in the documentation. They set what Rofi displays in its window. You can run Rofi from a keybind, or a module in Polybar, or by using click handlers. Extremely extensible and versatile. And a shit ton of fun to theme. :)
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A sensible NixOS Xfce desktop configuration
xwinmosaic: Having tried XMonad.Actions.GridSelect in the past, I found the 2-dimensional grid more confusing than useful because you cannot intuit where it would lay things out. I find Rofi to be more usable for window switching because it prioritizes text filtering. https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
What are some alternatives?
When comparing i3 and rofi you can also consider the following projects:
i3-gaps - i3-gaps – i3 with more features (forked from https://github.com/i3/i3)
albert - A fast and flexible keyboard launcher
nerd-fonts - Iconic font aggregator, collection, & patcher. 3,600+ icons, 50+ patched fonts: Hack, Source Code Pro, more. Glyph collections: Font Awesome, Material Design Icons, Octicons, & more
dmenu-rs - A pixel perfect port of dmenu, rewritten in Rust with extensive plugin support
i3-gaps-wm - A fork of the i3 window manager with gaps and some other features
polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar
kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal
Ulauncher - Feature rich application Launcher for Linux
polybar-themes - A huge collection of polybar themes with different styles, colors and variants.
dunst - Lightweight and customizable notification daemon