handlr
A better xdg-utils (by chmln)
rofi-games
A rofi plugin which adds a mode that will list available games for launch along with their box art. Requires a good theme for the best results. (by Rolv-Apneseth)
| handlr | rofi-games | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | |
| 600 | 48 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 7.9 | |
| about 1 year ago | 10 days ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
handlr
Posts with mentions or reviews of handlr.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-22.
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X11 Universal File Opener and XDG Mess
Having lived through the same frustrations I've released https://github.com/chmln/handlr a year ago. It comes with lots of nifty scripting tools and significant improvements over xdg-open
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New to the command-line
Use a plumbing program like handlr to open with the correct program without needing to type the program. alias handlr to something simple like f to reduce the keystrokes. If you want to be even more efficient write a wrapper-script around handlr which starts fzf if no argument to handlr is provided so you can immediately fuzzy-find a file. If the provided parameter is a directory than cd into it otherwise call handlr. This way you never have to type cd, fzf or any other program to open a file again.
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Change default file manager in X/DWM
I use https://github.com/chmln/handlr to set witch program associates with what. It is really poorly handled buy default imo. It is rust based so maybe some depends.
rofi-games
Posts with mentions or reviews of rofi-games.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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Always remember!
https://github.com/Rolv-Apneseth/rofi-games theres this on Linux that is absolutely beautiful and lets you launch games without steam. The one thing is that it's still more convenient to buy games through Steam than anywhere else, but even then you could buy from anywhere or pirate it and even add it to your library.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing handlr and rofi-games you can also consider the following projects:
mimeopen-gui - Graphical "Open with..." application chooser for Freedesktops
onagre - A general purpose application launcher for X and wayland inspired by rofi/wofi and alfred
i3-focus-last
rofi-vscode-mode - A Rofi plugin to open recent VSCode workspaces
grab - An attempt at making a simple clone of grep(1) using Rust.
eidolon - Provides a single TUI-based registry for drm-free, wine and steam games on linux, accessed through a rofi launch menu.
ashpd - A Rust wrapper around XDG portals DBus interfaces
rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
volsa2 - Volca Sample 2 sample manager for Linux
frece - Maintain a database sorted by frecency (frequency + recency)
gping - Ping, but with a graph