rofi
Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement (by davatorium)
albert
A fast and flexible keyboard launcher (by albertlauncher)
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| rofi | albert | |
|---|---|---|
| 152 | 60 | |
| 12,404 | 7,070 | |
| 1.9% | 0.8% | |
| 8.6 | 9.4 | |
| 8 days ago | 3 days ago | |
| C | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
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 2023-06-27.
- Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
- macOS Command-Line Tools You Might Not Know About
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What is the appeal of the 'start menu' in so many desktop environments?
You'll probably like rofi.
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Possible to filter clipboard when using `unamedplus`?
Also, I use this script so that Rofi will show my clipboard instead of the native klipper UI (because it's far less keyboard friendly). Normally the script works great, but the script chokes whenever I `dd` an empty line or a lone `\`, putting an empty entry on my clipboard, which the wrapper than assumes means I'm at the end of the list of clipboard entries.
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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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Cozytile - A Cozy Qtile Rice
OS: Arch Linux WM: Qtile Panel: Qtile bar Launcher: Rofi Notification Daemon: Dunst Terminal: Alacritty Shell: Zsh Compositor: Picom File Manager: Nemo Music Player: Spotify & ncmpcpp
- [Manjaro Linux] Manjaro + XFCE + ROFI + DRACULA THÈME
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What's your recommended launcher app in your opinion?
I like rofi (super flexible, i also use it as a custom alt-tab option in openbox) and wofi is a nice option on wayland
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xfce workplace switcher in polybar
Modi are covered in the documentation. They set what Rofi displays in its window. You can run Rofi from a keybind, or a module in Polybar, or by using click handlers. Extremely extensible and versatile. And a shit ton of fun to theme. :)
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A sensible NixOS Xfce desktop configuration
xwinmosaic: Having tried XMonad.Actions.GridSelect in the past, I found the 2-dimensional grid more confusing than useful because you cannot intuit where it would lay things out. I find Rofi to be more usable for window switching because it prioritizes text filtering. https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
albert
Posts with mentions or reviews of albert.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-30.
- Wechsel von Windows auf Linux - zu viele Programme Windows-only?
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Ubuntu for a Mac user (SWE)
And, albert https://albertlauncher.github.io/ would be the default spotlight alternative, but in my experience it's not that snappy and doesn't behave exactly as you'd expect. imo the default gnome search function is fine
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Is there an xfce equivalent to KDE's quick launch?
not native but this albert good
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Albert launcher update!
It took quite some time, but after years of overhaul, testing, and patching I'd like to introduce Albert. New features (since 0.18) include an abstract plugin system, custom triggers, an API which got more developer friendly and of course feature rich for both C++ and Python plugins, plugins come with more features, search is even faster, UI is nicer, Qt6, C++20… Give it a try and let me know what you think.
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Produtividade no Linux.
https://albertlauncher.github.io/ > Launcher de app e outras coisas
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Ask HN: Why is on-device search terrible?
https://albertlauncher.github.io/
The demonstrations there confirm searching, and way more than I can do justice here
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Alternatives for Search Light extension
Use Albert or uLauncher
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Albert vs Ulauncher vs Zazu
Is it not they have there github right here? https://github.com/albertlauncher/albert
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If you would change the DE you use , which one would it be?
The only 'extra' i've installed is Albert.
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Announcing Findex v0.6.0
Check out albert. They do it prefectly. https://albertlauncher.github.io/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing rofi and albert you can also consider the following projects:
dmenu-rs - A pixel perfect port of dmenu, rewritten in Rust with extensive plugin support
Ulauncher - Feature rich application Launcher for Linux
polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar
cerebro - 🔵 Cerebro is an open-source launcher to improve your productivity and efficiency
awesome-wm-nice - An Awesome WM module that add MacOS-like window decorations, with seamless titlebars, double click to maximize, and window shade feature
nerd-fonts - Iconic font aggregator, collection, & patcher. 3,600+ icons, 50+ patched fonts: Hack, Source Code Pro, more. Glyph collections: Font Awesome, Material Design Icons, Octicons, & more
fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder
dunst - Lightweight and customizable notification daemon
guake - Drop-down terminal for GNOME
LightlyShaders - Round corners and outline effect for kwin.