rofi
Rofi: A window switcher, run dialog and dmenu replacement - fork with wayland support (by lbonn)
wmfocus
Visually focus windows by label (by svenstaro)
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rofi
Posts with mentions or reviews of rofi.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-13.
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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 👍 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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Fuzzy window switcher a la rofi?
https://github.com/lbonn/rofi This is a rofi fork with wayland support. I'm not sure if the window switcher works, but everything else is pretty stable in my experience
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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].
- Is there a way to ask mako to ignore notifications from one application
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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.
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Applications are blurry and pixelated on HiDPI laptop screen
There is a wayland fork of rofi as well: https://github.com/lbonn/rofi
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rofi - 1.7.0: Iggy 2024
There's already a fork with Wayland support.
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I'm trying to learn using sway but I'm having issues with 2 monitors.
Are you using wayland's fork?
wmfocus
Posts with mentions or reviews of wmfocus.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-24.
- sway-overfocus: Nicer basic navigation between tabs and splits in i3/sway
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Switching and swapping windows with ace-jump/easymotion-like hints
I've searched around for similar tools (and this has been asked in the past in other places: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/368825/select-x-windows-using-the-keyboard-like-ace-jump-hint-following-or-similar). The only tools I've found, in addition to XMonad's EasyMotion, are https://github.com/loki42/easyxmotion (mentioned in the stackexchange link) but after some quick and dirty hacks of the code (which is way over my head) I was not able to get much larger fonts nor obtain the window ID. There are also two tools that work with i3: https://github.com/cornerman/i3-easyfocus and https://github.com/svenstaro/wmfocus . Both give window's IDs and the last one displays large fonts with a small square background, so hints have great visibility. Both should, in principle, be window manager agnostic (https://github.com/cornerman/i3-easyfocus/issues/3 , https://github.com/svenstaro/wmfocus/issues/4 ), but those issues for WM-independent implementations are still open and the only existing implementations are for i3. (I played with both and looked at the code, but removing the i3 dependencies was not obvious to me ---and wmfocus is Rust, which I've never dealt with before).
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Relative Window Selection
I use this one: https://github.com/svenstaro/wmfocus
- sway window selector
What are some alternatives?
When comparing rofi and wmfocus you can also consider the following projects:
arewewaylandyet - Sources for https://arewewaylandyet.com
bemenu - Dynamic menu library and client program inspired by dmenu
rofi-pass - rofi frontend for pass
wtype - xdotool type for wayland
i3-automark - Auto mark windows in i3
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
tessen - an interactive menu to autotype and copy pass and gopass data
pass-tessen - use fzf to select data from password store
password-store-example - Gopass examples
pass-clip - A pass extension that lets you quickly copy to clipboard passwords using fzf or rofi
penrose - A library for writing an X11 tiling window manager
easyxmotion - Jump to windows in a style similar to the easymotion vim plugin, best with tiling WMs