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Top 4 C application-launcher Projects
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Today is a lazy Sunday, and I did what nobody should do on a Sunday: Spend time trying to replace something that already works. This time, my victim was rofi.
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tofi: Advertises itself as a dmenu and rofi replacement and claims to be very fast. It is limited to launching applications. I could not see how I would customize it with my own scripts.
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On the other hand, as you can read at its GitHub repo, jgmenu is a simple, independent and contemporary-looking X11 menu, designed for scripting, ricing and tweaking. It is hackable, has a simple code base and does not depend on any toolkits such as GTK and Qt, but uses cairo and pango to render the menu. It can optionally use some appearance settings from XSettings, tint2 and GTK; and it has UTF-8 search support.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source application-launcher projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | rofi | 14,286 |
| 2 | tofi | 1,097 |
| 3 | jgmenu | 934 |
| 4 | xstarter | 51 |
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