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nwg-shell
Installer & meta-package for the nwg-shell project: a GTK3-based shell for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors
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rofi
Rofi: A window switcher, run dialog and dmenu replacement - fork with wayland support (by lbonn)
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Wayland Application Launchers: Stick with Rofi
But also, sway-launcher-desktop is a brilliant hack that uses fzf to implement a launcher that works in the console. I can think of many such use cases. As a starting point, I revisited my fzf shell integration configuration today and decided to invest in it a bit more for my scripting efforts.
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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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3.7
7 months ago
Biont/sway-launcher-desktop is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of sway-launcher-desktop is Shell.
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