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Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement

26 mentions on Hacker News by 23 people: 2 stories, 24 comments · first 2017-10-05 · latest 2025-10-12

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  1. …of running Windows apps like Adobe, Resolve, Office, for instance? Or AutoHotkey or equivalent? 0: https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
    comment by brushfoot · 2025-10-12 · in No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
  2. …quick switching by name / title. [1]: https://github.com/tpamula/webextension-window-titler [2]: https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
    comment by nine_k · 2025-09-12 · in Why our website looks like an operating system
  3. I made a script to open files with rofi https://github.com/davatorium/rofi Looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/Hm9TGeV.jpg In a vscode terminal I just use the alias "o" and it opens that at the correct location, then I can navigate and…
    comment by Sujeto · 2023-06-27 · in macOS command-line tools you might not know about
  4. …"" ; $3 = ""; $4 = ""; print $0}' | tail -n +2 | sed 's/\/nix\/store\/[^\/]*//' else kill $1 fi [1] https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
    comment by flylikeabanana · 2022-11-13 · in Emacs: Quickly Killing Processes
  5. …fbrun - https://linux.die.net/man/1/fbrun rofi (my personal favourite) - https://github.com/davatorium/rofi gmrun - https://github.com/WdesktopX/gmrun krunner - https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/Krunner dmenu - https://tools.suckless
    comment by pluc · 2022-06-04 · in Albert – open-source keyboard launcher for Linux
  6. GNU/Linux users may be interested in rofi [0] or the more spartan dmenu [1] [0] https://github.com/davatorium/rofi [1] https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/
    comment by Liquix · 2022-05-08 · in PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities
  7. …One of the key things I can't go without now in my workflow is a clipboard manager. I use Rofi ( https://github.com/davatorium/rofi ) in combination with Greenclip ( https://github.com/erebe/greenclip ) and it's a Godsend. I have a custom…
    comment by matthewhartmans · 2022-01-05 · in The weight of the clipboard
  8. …a key to Compose is actually much easier to do, through the excellent WinCompose utility [2]. [1] https://github.com/davatorium/rofi [2] http://wincompose.info/
    comment by sidpatil · 2021-11-17 · in Show HN: US-BR, a fork of US-intl for brazilian / portuguese programmers
  9. …Windows - https://keypirinha.com/ - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run Linux: - https://github.com/davatorium/rofi - http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/ Command line - https://github.com/junegunn/fzf -…
    comment by least · 2021-06-04 · in Command Palette Interfaces
  10. …prefer to use rofi, which gives you an interactive menu in the center of the screen: Link to Rofi: https://github.com/davatorium/rofi Examples of how I use rofi: https://adityam.github.io/linux-blog/post/rofi-selectors/
    comment by adiM · 2021-03-31 · in Improving Shell Workflows with Fzf
  11. …something you'd want to run from your desktop and it doesn't learn" Try rofi[1]. It learns. [1] - https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
    comment by pmoriarty · 2020-12-16 · in I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager
  12. …run any program from the same interface. [1]: https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_scratchpad [2]: https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
    comment by abetlen · 2020-12-16 · in I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager
  13. …box for the last year or so and haven't looked back. [1] https://github.com/erebe/greenclip [2] https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
    comment by camnora · 2020-09-22 · in No script is too simple
  14. I use Rofi. https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
    comment by trashcat · 2019-12-24 · in Jarvis, an Alfred Alternative for Windows
  15. …manual compared to what I do now which is wrap calibredb in a script and narrow if needed via rofi. https://github.com/davatorium/rofi Presumably would be about as easy to do in elisp. A call to calibredb in a library of thousands of books…
    comment by michaelmrose · 2019-11-03 · in Major Mode for Reading EPUBs in Emacs
  16. …the default search on windows 10, for example. [1] https://github.com/albertlauncher/albert [2] https://github.com/DaveDavenport/rofi [3] https://ulauncher.io [4] http://keypirinha.com [5] http://www.wox.one
    comment by least · 2019-10-23 · in Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?
  17. I'd suggest rofi[1] rather than albert, runs like a charm. [1] https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
    comment by nouney · 2019-08-25 · in From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love
  18. This sound like a use for Rofi[0] and some kind of Todo.txt code that appends to a file [0]: https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
    comment by open-paren · 2019-08-20 · in Todo.txt: Future-proof task tracking in a file you control
  19. …switcher, which spares me pressing two keys.. Esc is even on the same side as the keyboard.. Rofi: https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
    comment by buster · 2019-07-20 · in Uncap - Map Caps Lock to Escape on Windows, Linux, and macOS
  20. rofi ( https://github.com/davatorium/rofi ). I use it as my primary window switcher.
    comment by 4bpp · 2019-03-29 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite utility desktop apps?
  21. …windows, select from a list of applications like i3-dmenu-desktop, list available ssh connections https://github.com/DaveDavenport/rofi
    comment by michaelmrose · 2018-10-15 · in Snap, Flatpak and AppImage, package formats compared
  22. …[3] https://github.com/TrilbyWhite/interrobang [4] https://github.com/emgram769/lighthouse [5] https://github.com/DaveDavenport/rofi [6] https://github.com/jarun/Buku/ - bl
    comment by BlackLotus89 · 2018-03-18 · in Building a fast Electron app with Rust
  23. If you're using a compatible window manager, you may like [rofi]( https://github.com/DaveDavenport/rofi/ ), which in one of its mode, allows you to jump from window to window through their name, a bit like the buffer selector in emacs.
    comment by ethelward · 2018-01-23 · in Org-Mode for Visual Studio Code
  24. If you want the same experience with more eye-candy, look into rofi. https://github.com/DaveDavenport/rofi It has default submodules to replace dmenu_run, a similar mode that lists the XDG applications (akin to the Start Menu you get on…
    comment by JetSpiegel · 2017-11-23 · in Cortana is really bad