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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If anyone prefers the dmenu look and feel, there's also bemenu

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

and there is also wofi for rofi.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And there's lbonn's fork of rofi with native wayland support. It opens faster than wofi.

Edit: https://github.com/lbonn/rofi

It's in some repos available as rofi-wayland.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Didn't know about that. Nice one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, and it's pretty good, if not as flexible as rofi.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And dmenu-wayland.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Awesome, will give this a try on a new Arch install with hypr

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the tip! I'll give it a go.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Been using this with Sway since the start of the year, and it's been wonderful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The thing I miss from rofi is the ssh/mosh support with history. I haven't been able to replicate that on any of the other alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I initially missed SSH support from Rofi, but just changed my workflow to open a terminal and then use Fish with the history autocomplete history to quickly select a host to SSH to.