sway-launcher-desktop
TUI Application launcher with Desktop Entry support. Made for SwayWM, but runs anywhere (by Biont)
rofi
Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement (by davatorium)
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| sway-launcher-desktop | rofi | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 152 | |
| 585 | 12,430 | |
| - | 2.1% | |
| 4.9 | 8.5 | |
| 7 months ago | 5 days ago | |
| Shell | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | 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.
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.
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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing sway-launcher-desktop and rofi you can also consider the following projects:
yofi - yofi is a minimalistic menu for wayland
albert - A fast and flexible keyboard launcher
awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.
dmenu-rs - A pixel perfect port of dmenu, rewritten in Rust with extensive plugin support
betterlockscreen - 🍀 sweet looking lockscreen for linux system
polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar
xdg-xmenu - Minimal app menu with xmenu
Ulauncher - Feature rich application Launcher for Linux
nnn - n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
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
dotfiles - My arch setup script and dotfiles
dunst - Lightweight and customizable notification daemon
sway-launcher-desktop vs yofi
rofi vs albert
sway-launcher-desktop vs awesome-wayland
rofi vs dmenu-rs
sway-launcher-desktop vs betterlockscreen
rofi vs polybar
sway-launcher-desktop vs xdg-xmenu
rofi vs Ulauncher
sway-launcher-desktop vs nnn
rofi vs nerd-fonts
sway-launcher-desktop vs dotfiles
rofi vs dunst