base on Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement <p align="center"> <a href="https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/issues"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/issues/davatorium/rofi.svg"></a> <a href="https://img.shields.io/github/forks/davatorium/rofi.svg"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/forks/davatorium/rofi.svg"></a> <a href="https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/stargazers"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/stars/davatorium/rofi.svg"></a> <a href="https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/releases"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/davatorium/rofi/total.svg"></a> <a href="https://repology.org/metapackage/rofi/versions"><img src="https://repology.org/badge/tiny-repos/rofi.svg"></a> </p> **Please match the documentation and scripts to the version of rofi used** - [next version](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi) - [1.7.9](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/tree/1.7.9) - [1.7.8](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/tree/1.7.8) - [1.7.7](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/tree/1.7.7) - [1.7.6](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/tree/1.7.6) - [1.7.5](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/tree/1.7.5) - [1.7.4](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/tree/1.7.4) - [1.7.3](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/tree/1.7.3) - [1.7.2](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/tree/1.7.2) - [1.7.1](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/tree/1.7.1) - [1.7.0](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/tree/1.7.0) Also see the locally installed documentation (manpages). <h1 align="center"> Rofi </h1> <p align="center"><i>A window switcher, Application launcher and dmenu replacement</i>.</p> <https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/84911063/139428874-fe182dd6-82c6-49b8-8da1-920ddda3d1ed.mp4> **Rofi** started as a clone of simpleswitcher, written by [Sean Pringle](http://github.com/seanpringle/simpleswitcher) - a popup window switcher roughly based on [superswitcher](http://code.google.com/p/superswitcher/). Simpleswitcher laid the foundations, and therefore Sean Pringle deserves most of the credit for this tool. **Rofi** (renamed, as it lost the *simple* property) has been extended with extra features, like an application launcher and ssh-launcher, and can act as a drop-in dmenu replacement, making it a very versatile tool. Thanks to the great work of [lbonn](https://github.com/lbonn), who added Wayland support in his fork and maintained it for years, **Rofi** now officially supports Wayland (since 2025). **Rofi**, like dmenu, will provide the user with a textual list of options where one or more can be selected. This can either be running an application, selecting a window, or options provided by an external script. ### What is rofi not? Rofi is not: - A UI toolkit. - A library to be used in other applications. - An application that can support every possible use-case. It tries to be generic enough to be usable by everybody. - Specific functionality can be added using scripts or plugins, many exists. - Just a dmenu replacement. The dmenu functionality is a nice 'extra' to **rofi**, not its main purpose. ## Table of Contents - [Features](#features) - [Modes](#modes) - [Manpages](#manpage) - [Installation](#installation) - [Quickstart](#quickstart) - [Usage](#usage) - [Configuration](#configuration) - [Themes](#themes) - [Screenshots](#screenshots) - [Wiki](#wiki) - [Discussion places](#discussion-places) ## Features Its main features are: - Fully configurable keyboard navigation - Type to filter - Tokenized: type any word in any order to filter - Case insensitive (togglable) or SmartCase - Support for fuzzy-, regex-, prefix-, and glob-matching - UTF-8 enabled - UTF-8-aware string collating - International keyboard support (\`e -> è) - RTL language support - Cairo drawing and Pango font rendering - Built-in modes: - Window switcher mode - EWMH compatible WM - Work arounds for i3,bspwm - Wayland based WMs that follow the wlr family - Application launcher - Desktop file application launcher - SSH launcher mode - File browser - Combi mode, allowing several modes to be merged into one list - History-based ordering — last 25 choices are ordered on top based on use (optional) - Levenshtein distance or fzf like sorting of matches (optional) - Drop-in dmenu replacement - Many added improvements - Easily extensible using scripts and plugins - Advanced Theming ## Modes **Rofi** has several built-in modes implementing common use cases and can be extended by scripts (either called from **Rofi** or calling **Rofi**) or plugins. Below is a list of the different modes: - **run**: launch applications from $PATH, with option to launch in terminal. - **drun**: launch applications based on desktop files. It tries to be compliant to the XDG standard. - **window**: Switch between windows on an EWMH compatible window manager. - **ssh**: Connect to a remote host via ssh. - **filebrowser**: A basic file-browser for opening files. - **keys**: list internal keybindings. - **script**: Write (limited) custom mode using simple scripts. - **combi**: Combine multiple modes into one. **Rofi** is known to work on Linux and BSD. ## Wayland support ### Build Please follow the [build instructions](INSTALL.md) to build rofi. Wayland support is enabled by default, along with X11/xcb. rofi can also be built *without* X11/xcb or wayland, but atleast one backend should be enabled: meson build -Dxcb=disabled meson build -Dwayland=disabled ### Usage **Rofi** should automatically select the xcb or wayland backend depending on the environment it is run on. To force the use of the xcb backend (if enabled during build), the `-x11` option can be used: rofi -x11 ... ### Missing features in Wayland mode Due to the different architecture and available APIs in Wayland mode, some original rofi features are difficult or impossible to replicate - `-normal-window` flag. Though it is also considered as a toy/deprecated feature in Upstream rofi. Not impossible but would require some work. - `-monitor -n` for fine-grained selection of monitor to display rofi on - some window locations parameters work partially, `x-offset` and `y-offset` are only working from screen edges - fake transparency - window mode on KWin which implements different protocols than the wlr family ### Wayland DPI On wayland, the output is only known after the first surface is shown. This makes sizing rofi windows in absolute size (mm) very difficult, a problem unique for rofi, as the actual DPI is unknown before hand. This can be worked around by manually passing the right DPI via configuration system. If the `dpi` config option is set to `0` and only one monitor is connected rofi will use the DPI of the only connected monitor or if you have multiple monitors and you specify a monitor name, it will use the DPI of that monitor. ## Manpage For more up to date information, please see the manpages. The other sections and links might have outdated information as they have relatively less maintainance than the manpages. So, if you come across any issues please consult manpages, [discussion](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/discussions) and [issue tracker](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/issues?q=) before filing new issue. - Manpages: - [rofi](doc/rofi.1.markdown) - [rofi-theme](doc/rofi-theme.5.markdown) - [rofi-debugging](doc/rofi-debugging.5.markdown) - [rofi-script](doc/rofi-script.5.markdown) - [rofi-theme-selector](doc/rofi-theme-selector.1.markdown) - [rofi-thumbnails](doc/rofi-thumbnails.5.markdown) - [rofi-keys](doc/rofi-keys.5.markdown) - [rofi-dmenu](doc/rofi-dmenu.5.markdown) ## Installation Please see the [installation guide](INSTALL.md) for instructions on how to install **Rofi**. ## Quickstart ### Usage > **This section just gives a brief overview of the various options. To get the > full set of options see the [manpages](#manpage) section above** #### Running rofi To launch **rofi** directly in a certain mode, specify a mode with `rofi -show <mode>`. To show the `run` dialog: ```bash rofi -show run ``` Or get the options from a script: ```bash ~/my_script.sh | rofi -dmenu ``` Specify an ordered, comma-separated list of modes to enable. Enabled modes can be changed at runtime. Default key is `Ctrl+Tab`. If no modes are specified, all configured modes will be enabled. To only show the `run` and `ssh` launcher: ```bash rofi -modes "run,ssh" -show run ``` The modes to combine in combi mode. For syntax to `-combi-modes`, see `-modes`. To get one merge view, of `window`,`run`, and `ssh`: ```bash rofi -show combi -combi-modes "window,run,ssh" -modes combi ``` ### Configuration Generate a default configuration file ```bash mkdir -p ~/.config/rofi rofi -dump-config > ~/.config/rofi/config.rasi ``` This creates a file called `config.rasi` in the `~/.config/rofi/` folder. You can modify this file to set configuration settings and modify themes. `config.rasi` is the file rofi looks to by default. Please see the [configuration guide](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/blob/next/CONFIG.md) for a summary of configuration options. More detailed options are provided in the manpages. ### Themes Please see the [themes manpages](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/blob/next/doc/rofi-theme.5.markdown) for a detailed description. The latest bundled themes can be found [here](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/tree/next/themes). ## Screenshots Rezlooks:  Arthur:  Default theme:  ## Wiki | ❗ **The Wiki is currently unmaintained and might contain outdated data** | | --- | [Go to wiki](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/wiki) . ### Contents - [User scripts](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/wiki/User-scripts) - [Examples](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/wiki#examples) - [dmenu Specs](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/wiki/dmenu_specs) - [mode Specs](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/wiki/mode-Specs) - [F.A.Q.](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions). - [Script mode](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/wiki/rfc-script-mode) - [Creating an issue](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) - [Creating a Pull request](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/wiki/Creating-a-pull-request) ## Discussion places The [GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/discussions) is the preferred location for discussions. - [GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/discussions) - IRC (#rofi on irc.libera.chat) ### Stargazers over time [](https://starchart.cc/davatorium/rofi) ", Assign "at most 3 tags" to the expected json: {"id":"2806","tags":[]} "only from the tags list I provide: [{"id":77,"name":"3d"},{"id":89,"name":"agent"},{"id":17,"name":"ai"},{"id":54,"name":"algorithm"},{"id":24,"name":"api"},{"id":44,"name":"authentication"},{"id":3,"name":"aws"},{"id":27,"name":"backend"},{"id":60,"name":"benchmark"},{"id":72,"name":"best-practices"},{"id":39,"name":"bitcoin"},{"id":37,"name":"blockchain"},{"id":1,"name":"blog"},{"id":45,"name":"bundler"},{"id":58,"name":"cache"},{"id":21,"name":"chat"},{"id":49,"name":"cicd"},{"id":4,"name":"cli"},{"id":64,"name":"cloud-native"},{"id":48,"name":"cms"},{"id":61,"name":"compiler"},{"id":68,"name":"containerization"},{"id":92,"name":"crm"},{"id":34,"name":"data"},{"id":47,"name":"database"},{"id":8,"name":"declarative-gui "},{"id":9,"name":"deploy-tool"},{"id":53,"name":"desktop-app"},{"id":6,"name":"dev-exp-lib"},{"id":59,"name":"dev-tool"},{"id":13,"name":"ecommerce"},{"id":26,"name":"editor"},{"id":66,"name":"emulator"},{"id":62,"name":"filesystem"},{"id":80,"name":"finance"},{"id":15,"name":"firmware"},{"id":73,"name":"for-fun"},{"id":2,"name":"framework"},{"id":11,"name":"frontend"},{"id":22,"name":"game"},{"id":81,"name":"game-engine "},{"id":23,"name":"graphql"},{"id":84,"name":"gui"},{"id":91,"name":"http"},{"id":5,"name":"http-client"},{"id":51,"name":"iac"},{"id":30,"name":"ide"},{"id":78,"name":"iot"},{"id":40,"name":"json"},{"id":83,"name":"julian"},{"id":38,"name":"k8s"},{"id":31,"name":"language"},{"id":10,"name":"learning-resource"},{"id":33,"name":"lib"},{"id":41,"name":"linter"},{"id":28,"name":"lms"},{"id":16,"name":"logging"},{"id":76,"name":"low-code"},{"id":90,"name":"message-queue"},{"id":42,"name":"mobile-app"},{"id":18,"name":"monitoring"},{"id":36,"name":"networking"},{"id":7,"name":"node-version"},{"id":55,"name":"nosql"},{"id":57,"name":"observability"},{"id":46,"name":"orm"},{"id":52,"name":"os"},{"id":14,"name":"parser"},{"id":74,"name":"react"},{"id":82,"name":"real-time"},{"id":56,"name":"robot"},{"id":65,"name":"runtime"},{"id":32,"name":"sdk"},{"id":71,"name":"search"},{"id":63,"name":"secrets"},{"id":25,"name":"security"},{"id":85,"name":"server"},{"id":86,"name":"serverless"},{"id":70,"name":"storage"},{"id":75,"name":"system-design"},{"id":79,"name":"terminal"},{"id":29,"name":"testing"},{"id":12,"name":"ui"},{"id":50,"name":"ux"},{"id":88,"name":"video"},{"id":20,"name":"web-app"},{"id":35,"name":"web-server"},{"id":43,"name":"webassembly"},{"id":69,"name":"workflow"},{"id":87,"name":"yaml"}]" returns me the "expected json"