sway-launcher-desktop
TUI Application launcher with Desktop Entry support. Made for SwayWM, but runs anywhere (by Biont)
Sway-DE
🏠 Sway desktop environment dotfile installation for Arch Linux (by Madic-)
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| sway-launcher-desktop | Sway-DE | |
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| 10 | 4 | |
| 585 | 333 | |
| - | - | |
| 4.9 | 6.8 | |
| 7 months ago | 7 months ago | |
| Shell | Shell | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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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.
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.
1: https://github.com/Biont/sway-launcher-desktop
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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.
Sway-DE
Posts with mentions or reviews of Sway-DE.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-07.
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Identifying the window of Bemenu
A wrapper script so that bemenu always looks the same: https://github.com/Madic-/Sway-DE/blob/master/bin/bemenu-run.sh
- Would you guys share your dotfiles?
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Best bars and panels for wlroots compositors?
Waybar is working reliable for me. It maybe crashes once a month. But when it crashes, it's being automatically restarted by a systemd user unit
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Managing slightly differing dotfiles over multiple machines - Git?
I know. But this requires way more overhead. For my professional ansible usage we do prefer the usage of group_vars. But for my simple dotfiles management it's to much. My dotfiles are managed with three small playbooks and templates
What are some alternatives?
When comparing sway-launcher-desktop and Sway-DE you can also consider the following projects:
yofi - yofi is a minimalistic menu for wayland
wl-clipboard-manager - Clipboard manager for Wayland
awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.
bemenu - Dynamic menu library and client program inspired by dmenu
rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
nwg-shell - Installer & meta-package for the nwg-shell project: a GTK3-based shell for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors
betterlockscreen - 🍀 sweet looking lockscreen for linux system
nwg-panel - GTK3-based panel for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors
xdg-xmenu - Minimal app menu with xmenu
wireguard-rofi-waybar - Plugin for Waybar and rofi to use NetworkManager's WireGuard capabilities
nnn - n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
dotfiles - Sway acid dark
sway-launcher-desktop vs yofi
Sway-DE vs wl-clipboard-manager
sway-launcher-desktop vs awesome-wayland
Sway-DE vs bemenu
sway-launcher-desktop vs rofi
Sway-DE vs nwg-shell
sway-launcher-desktop vs betterlockscreen
Sway-DE vs nwg-panel
sway-launcher-desktop vs xdg-xmenu
Sway-DE vs wireguard-rofi-waybar
sway-launcher-desktop vs nnn
Sway-DE vs dotfiles