Rofi
Rofi is a window switcher, run dialog, ssh-launcher and dmenu replacement that started as a clone of simpleswitcher, written by Sean Pringle and later expanded by Dave Davenport.
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Installation
Configuration
There are currently three methods of setting configuration options:
- Local configuration. Normally, depending on XDG, in
~/.config/rofi/config
. This uses the Xresources format. - Xresources: A method of storing key values in the Xserver.
- Command line options
So
rofi -combi-modi window,drun,ssh -theme solarized -font "hack 10" -show combi
can be expressed in a config file like this:
rofi.combi-modi: window,drun,ssh rofi.theme: solarized rofi.font: hack 10 rofi.modi: combi
To get a full list of options you can put in Xresources or in your config file run rofi -dump-Xresources
#
eg rofi -combi-modi window#drun#ssh
If called as dmenu (via a symlink), rofi acts like dmenu. You may want to install rofi-dmenuAUR, which symlinks dmenu to rofi. Then programs that call dmenu from a script (like passmenu from pass) will use rofi instead of dmenu.
If you prefer the look of dmenu, this approximates it:
rofi -show run -modi run -location 1 -width 100 \ -lines 2 -line-margin 0 -line-padding 1 \ -separator-style none -font "mono 10" -columns 9 -bw 0 \ -disable-history \ -hide-scrollbar \ -color-window "#222222, #222222, #b1b4b3" \ -color-normal "#222222, #b1b4b3, #222222, #005577, #b1b4b3" \ -color-active "#222222, #b1b4b3, #222222, #007763, #b1b4b3" \ -color-urgent "#222222, #b1b4b3, #222222, #77003d, #b1b4b3" \ -kb-row-select "Tab" -kb-row-tab ""
Custom Themes
You can preview and apply themes for rofi with
rofi-theme-selector
Customizations may be saved to your .Xresources file (requires the xorg-xrdb package).
To apply changes reload .Xresources with xrdb -load ~/.Xresources
.
Contributed Themes
See the official rofi-themes repository for a list of custom themes.
Download one of the .rasi themes and place it in ~/.config/rofi/example.rasi
. Then load up the theme on the command line or in a config file:
rofi <options> -theme example
or in your configuration file
rofi.theme: example