j4-dmenu-desktop
A fast desktop menu (by enkore)
tofi
Tiny dynamic menu for Wayland (by philj56)
| j4-dmenu-desktop | tofi | |
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| 11 | 6 | |
| 655 | 729 | |
| - | - | |
| 9.0 | 4.8 | |
| 5 days ago | about 2 months ago | |
| C++ | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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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.
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
tofi
Posts with mentions or reviews of tofi.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-04.
- Freebsd 14 Wayland and Wayfire using Nvidia on Dell XPS 15
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Graphical mouse based Launcher instead of Terminal in Sway?
but as with others I generally just use tofi-drun
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Fuzzel: A great dmenu and rofi alternative for Wayland
Tofi is missing icon support for me but otherwise appears to have a nice balance of features. I haven’t tried it yet. https://github.com/philj56/tofi
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[OC] tofi - an extemely fast and tiny rofi / dmenu for Sway that can get on screen in one frame.
Thanks! Yeah it's a bit annoying that key repeat in Wayland is left almost entirely to the application to sort out, and as I don't really need it when I'm just launching stuff, I haven't gotten around to it yet. I probably will at some point though (especially seeing as someone else already opened an issue as well).
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tofi - a tiny rofi / dmenu for Sway
Done. It could do with some more keybindings in general, but those'll probably wait until I do pagination (if I do).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing j4-dmenu-desktop and tofi you can also consider the following projects:
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
nwg-drawer - Application drawer for wlroots-based Wayland compositors
rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
Ulauncher - Feature rich application Launcher for Linux
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
gtklock - GTK-based lockscreen for Wayland
dmenu-emoji - Search an emoji by name and copy it to the clipboard [i3, dmenu, rofi]
yaltl - tofi application launcher for Linux
sway-launcher-desktop - TUI Application launcher with Desktop Entry support. Made for SwayWM, but runs anywhere
freebsd-dotfiles-xps - freebsd dotfiles dell xps 15 2019
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!
freebsd-bin - freebsd home bin directory
j4-dmenu-desktop vs i3
tofi vs nwg-drawer
j4-dmenu-desktop vs rofi
tofi vs Ulauncher
j4-dmenu-desktop vs sway
tofi vs gtklock
j4-dmenu-desktop vs dmenu-emoji
tofi vs yaltl
j4-dmenu-desktop vs sway-launcher-desktop
tofi vs freebsd-dotfiles-xps
j4-dmenu-desktop vs Marlin-2-0-x-Anycubic-i3-MEGA-S
tofi vs freebsd-bin