rofi
Rofi: A window switcher, run dialog and dmenu replacement - fork with wayland support (by lbonn)
bemenu
Dynamic menu library and client program inspired by dmenu (by Cloudef)
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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 2023-06-29.
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Calculator for sway
https://github.com/svenstaro/rofi-calc together with https://github.com/lbonn/rofi (both packaged for openSUSE and perhaps other Linux distros).
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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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Wofi is SO superior to Rofi
There's a rofi fork that's wayland native and works with the thousands of scripts and themes out there: https://github.com/lbonn/rofi
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Emacs: Quickly Killing Processes
There's a patched fork of rofi that supports wayland that I'm actually using, but linked the upstream in my OP for general reference: https://github.com/lbonn/rofi#wayland-support
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rofi-dekstop - A rofi powered, menu driven desktop environment
There's a rofi fork that works well in Wayland: https://github.com/lbonn/rofi You need to install this instead of standard rofi
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is there a word-to-latex converter?
I wrote my own web based LaTeX editor I can use if I want access to my LaTeX files from a different computer, something I never would have been able to do if I hadn't learned how the pieces work together (though I actually use neovim over ssh more often).
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Application launcher that displays application names correctly
rofi allows you to combine the two into a single mode showing both; there's a wayland-compatible fork of rofi if you'd rather try that.
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Wayland native desktop launcher with password-store support?
rofi has a native wayland port ( https://github.com/lbonn/rofi ) and the -dmenu option emulate dmenu's behaviour, is there a specific reason why you don't want to use it ?
well you're in luck then, wofi uses GTK but rofi does not đź‘Ť It is also quite customizable so you can make it look pretty much however you want, and there is already a dmenu theme ( https://github.com/lbonn/rofi/blob/wayland/themes/dmenu.rasi ) And finally, if you create a link to the rofi binary called dmenu - depending on you distro this migh even be done by your packet manager, you'll get a drop in replacement for dmenu so programs don't have to explicitly support rofi. (You might want to tweak the dmenu theme a little though, when I tried it, the colours were a bit odd)
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List of CLI programs (follow-up to GUI). Feel free to make suggestions.
re: fuzzel, there is actually a rofi fork with wayland support that (works quite well)[https://github.com/lbonn/rofi].
bemenu
Posts with mentions or reviews of bemenu.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-25.
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Bash Menu
I really like using something like fuzzy search for menus like these. https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu is pretty cool in that it works both in a terminal, X11 and on Wayland, so if you want to do something graphical later you can easily migrate. There's also fzf and skim, which work similarly but are only for the terminal.
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command line menu / launcher?
bemenu (i. e. bemenu-run) is a simple launcher that has command line interface (set with BEMENU_BACKEND environment variable), also fzf can be useful in this regard but it will most likely require writing additional scripts to work as a launcher.
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The end of the nice GTK button
I've already highlighted how using environment variables to change themes is a horrible user experience. The bemenu program suffers from the same flaw. Environment Variables should never be used in any way for values that might change inside a running session.
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How to accept text input in swaynag?
bemenu
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No_color
Environment variables are fine when used for things that usually don't change once they're set. For example, XDG_CONFIG_HOME or GOPATH. They are, however, absolutely awful when used to configure values that will probably change inside a session. A good example is BEMENU_OPTS from the bemenu program, which is used to change colors, font etc. Should I relogin into my session just to make a program use dark mode colors?
https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu#environment-variables
In such cases, environment variables lose their intended purpose and they need to be stuffed into wrapper scripts or overridden on the command line before executing a command, which is extremely annoying.
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Identifying the window of Bemenu
Bemenu - "Dynamic menu library and client program inspired by dmenu"
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Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround
Instead of rofi, bemenu[2] is nice too.
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tessen: an interactive menu to autotype and copy password store data on Wayland, like rofi-pass
tessen can use either bemenu, the wayland fork of rofi, or wofi to show password store data. It relies on wtype for autotyping instead of using ydotool because ydotool needs root privileges.
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tessen: autotype and copy password-store data on Wayland, like rofi-pass
I've made a script called tessen which is, more or less, a replacement of rofi-pass but for Wayland. It can use bemenu or the wayland fork of rofi. It relies on wtype for autotyping instead of using ydotool because ydotool needs a daemon running with root privileges.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing rofi and bemenu you can also consider the following projects:
tessen - an interactive menu to autotype and copy pass and gopass data
rofi-pass - rofi frontend for pass
Sway-DE - 🏠Sway desktop environment dotfile installation for Arch Linux
arewewaylandyet - Sources for https://arewewaylandyet.com
pass-tessen - fuzzy data selection and copy-paste from password store
password-store-example - Gopass examples
wtype - xdotool type for wayland
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
grc - generic colouriser