j4-dmenu-desktop
A fast desktop menu (by enkore)
sway-launcher-desktop
TUI Application launcher with Desktop Entry support. Made for SwayWM, but runs anywhere (by Biont)
| j4-dmenu-desktop | sway-launcher-desktop | |
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| 11 | 10 | |
| 655 | 585 | |
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| 9.0 | 4.9 | |
| 5 days ago | 8 months ago | |
| C++ | Shell | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
j4-dmenu-desktop
Posts with mentions or reviews of j4-dmenu-desktop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-26.
- Arch Linux Updates Keep Breaking Packages (I've Given Up On Pacman!)
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running dmenu commands with arguments
you can run .desktop files with j4-dmenu-desktop
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tofi - a tiny rofi / dmenu for Sway
Not heard of that before, looks like similar points as for bemenu apply (tofi is faster and more themeable, but less polished overall). Tofi also doesn't support icons - not sure if it will to be honest, given the above comment that j4-dmenu-desktop can do the desktop file searching.
- kitty instead of xterm, can no longer spawn terminal based applications with dmenu or associated bindings
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Your favorite launcher ?
In case someone stumbles upon this post, I'd like to suggest using this in combination with j4-dmenu-desktop for use with .desktop files.
- dmenu_run cleaner and faster selection list
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.desktop file into dmenu
You should checkout this project
- Make dmenu read .desktop apps
- Ask HN: Cool dmenu-driven script ideas?
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Noob here, what is the "go-to" software at the moment?
https://github.com/enkore/j4-dmenu-desktop#readme https://github.com/sardemff7/j4status#readme
sway-launcher-desktop
Posts with mentions or reviews of sway-launcher-desktop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
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Sway-Talisman: Terminal Application Launcher in Scratchpad, Minimalist And Native
Is it better than https://github.com/Biont/sway-launcher-desktop ?
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command line menu / launcher?
I use sway-launcher-desktop. It does not really have submenus as you requested, but is still a nice terminal application launcher.
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Albert – open-source keyboard launcher for Linux
I don’t know if anything can beat sway-launcher-desktop (1) for me - bash and fzf are a lightning-fast combo.
1: https://github.com/Biont/sway-launcher-desktop
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Application launcher that displays application names correctly
Here's a list of other launchers for Sway, I personally use sway-launcher-desktop.
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Your favorite launcher ?
Now I use perfect TUI based sway-launcher-desktop
- Is there a place to read about recommended SwayWM builds?
- Goodbye Wofi, Hello FZF
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Duplicate .desktop entries for Visual Studio Code, which ones are the right ones?
Hi! I just started using sway-launcher-desktop, and I noticed that I have several duplicate entries for vscode.
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terminal + fzf as a program launcher?
Sounds like this script https://github.com/Biont/sway-launcher-desktop (it doesn't depend on sway anymore). I've been using it for ages and really like it.
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Overview Of The Unofficial Manjaro Sway Edition
It's sway-launcher-desktop.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing j4-dmenu-desktop and sway-launcher-desktop you can also consider the following projects:
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
yofi - yofi is a minimalistic menu for wayland
rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
dmenu-emoji - Search an emoji by name and copy it to the clipboard [i3, dmenu, rofi]
betterlockscreen - 🍀 sweet looking lockscreen for linux system
Marlin-2-0-x-Anycubic-i3-MEGA-S - Marlin 2.0.x Version for Anycubic i3 MEGA M/S/P/X/CHIRON and 4MAX with Anycubic TFT or the "new" DGUS Clone TFT - Now also with BLTouch!
xdg-xmenu - Minimal app menu with xmenu
nwg-shell - Installer & meta-package for the nwg-shell project: a GTK3-based shell for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors
nnn - n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
j4-dmenu-desktop vs i3
sway-launcher-desktop vs yofi
j4-dmenu-desktop vs rofi
sway-launcher-desktop vs awesome-wayland
j4-dmenu-desktop vs sway
sway-launcher-desktop vs rofi
j4-dmenu-desktop vs dmenu-emoji
sway-launcher-desktop vs betterlockscreen
j4-dmenu-desktop vs Marlin-2-0-x-Anycubic-i3-MEGA-S
sway-launcher-desktop vs xdg-xmenu
j4-dmenu-desktop vs nwg-shell
sway-launcher-desktop vs nnn