rofi VS wmfocus

Compare rofi vs wmfocus and see what are their differences.

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 wmfocus
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8.9 7.0
17 days ago 1 day ago
C Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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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.
  • Calculator for sway
    5 projects | /r/swaywm | 29 Jun 2023
    https://github.com/svenstaro/rofi-calc together with https://github.com/lbonn/rofi (both packaged for openSUSE and perhaps other Linux distros).
  • Rofi dry run
    2 projects | /r/swaywm | 30 May 2023
    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?
  • Wofi is SO superior to Rofi
    4 projects | /r/swaywm | 13 Dec 2022
    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
  • Emacs: Quickly Killing Processes
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Nov 2022
    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
  • rofi-dekstop - A rofi powered, menu driven desktop environment
    2 projects | /r/linux | 22 Oct 2022
    There's a rofi fork that works well in Wayland: https://github.com/lbonn/rofi You need to install this instead of standard rofi
  • is there a word-to-latex converter?
    2 projects | /r/LaTeX | 4 Jun 2022
    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).
  • Application launcher that displays application names correctly
    2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 3 Jun 2022
    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.
  • Wayland native desktop launcher with password-store support?
    3 projects | /r/swaywm | 13 Feb 2022
    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 ?
    3 projects | /r/swaywm | 13 Feb 2022
    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)
  • List of CLI programs (follow-up to GUI). Feel free to make suggestions.
    19 projects | /r/linux | 19 Jan 2022
    re: fuzzel, there is actually a rofi fork with wayland support that (works quite well)[https://github.com/lbonn/rofi].

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 2023-03-10.
  • Ace jump for i3
    2 projects | /r/i3wm | 10 Mar 2023
    I think wmfocus (Github, Arch) should be what you are looking for. It describes itself as "heavily inspired by i3-easyfocus."
  • Switching and swapping windows with ace-jump/easymotion-like hints
    7 projects | /r/bspwm | 24 Oct 2021
    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).
  • Relative Window Selection
    2 projects | /r/i3wm | 12 Jan 2021
    I use this one: https://github.com/svenstaro/wmfocus
  • sway window selector
    2 projects | /r/swaywm | 5 Jan 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rofi and wmfocus you can also consider the following projects:

bemenu - Dynamic menu library and client program inspired by dmenu

arewewaylandyet - Sources for https://arewewaylandyet.com

tessen - an interactive menu to autotype and copy pass and gopass data

rofi-pass - rofi frontend for pass

password-store-example - Gopass examples

wtype - xdotool type for wayland

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

pass-tessen - fuzzy data selection and copy-paste from password store

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

i3-automark - Auto mark windows in i3

i3-easyfocus - Focus and select windows in i3