nwg-launchers
GTK-based launchers: application grid, button bar, dmenu for sway and other window managers (by nwg-piotr)
sway-launcher-desktop
TUI Application launcher with Desktop Entry support. Made for SwayWM, but runs anywhere (by Biont)
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| nwg-launchers | sway-launcher-desktop | |
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| 5 | 10 | |
| 383 | 585 | |
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| 0.0 | 4.9 | |
| 2 months ago | 7 months ago | |
| C++ | Shell | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
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.
nwg-launchers
Posts with mentions or reviews of nwg-launchers.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-28.
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My One Complaint still stands in 42
You can find this in this github repo - https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-launchers
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How are you configuring touchpad gestures?
Sure thing! appgrid.sh is just a single command calling nwggrid from nwg launchers, a series of graphical shell tools for sway. It was originally started in C++ but the author started the project again in Go.
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GNOME-style Application menu for other DE's?
Maybe nwg-launchers could work.
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nwg-dock 0.0.1 ready for testing
This is the last (at least for now) missing part of nwg-shell for sway: autotiling, Azote, nwg-launchers, nwg-panel and nwg-dock.
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Manjaro Sway Edition
Just installed it, still looking around. I can make a suggestion that could horrify some (but be a nice possibility with very little added space), make a keybind (I use super+m (you know menu)) for nwg-launchers (https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-launchers). Nice overlay menu much like the gnome menu. Yes I know...we have dmenu/rofi/etc. But I just found this and it looks surprising on sway (lol). It's on the AUR. Both the grid and the bar look good, there's also his custom dmenu app.
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.
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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 nwg-launchers and sway-launcher-desktop you can also consider the following projects:
polybar-dwm-module - A dwm module for polybar
yofi - yofi is a minimalistic menu for wayland
nwg-panel - GTK3-based panel for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors
awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.
nwg-bar - GTK3-based button bar for wlroots-based compositors
rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
dwm-relative-controls - Simple yet useful dwm patch
betterlockscreen - 🍀 sweet looking lockscreen for linux system
win3wm - A Tiling Window Manager for windows 10, Inspired by i3wm
xdg-xmenu - Minimal app menu with xmenu
graph-bars-font - OTF font with vertical bars for one-line ASCII spectrum analyzers, graphs, etc
nnn - n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
nwg-launchers vs polybar-dwm-module
sway-launcher-desktop vs yofi
nwg-launchers vs nwg-panel
sway-launcher-desktop vs awesome-wayland
nwg-launchers vs nwg-bar
sway-launcher-desktop vs rofi
nwg-launchers vs dwm-relative-controls
sway-launcher-desktop vs betterlockscreen
nwg-launchers vs win3wm
sway-launcher-desktop vs xdg-xmenu
nwg-launchers vs graph-bars-font
sway-launcher-desktop vs nnn