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Desktop app launchers

Walker

  • GitHub
  • Active, >800 commits, 10 contributors
  • Go
  • AUR package: walker-bin
  • Issues:
    • Erratic and non-deterministic behaviour: Using the same input yields different matching results with i.e.: /home/varac/bin/custom/recently_used_files.sh | tail -200 | walker -d

Walker plugins

  • Easy to extend: simple stdin/stdout (external or via configuration, see wiki)
  • Wiki: Plugins

Wofi

Rofi-like, text-based alternative for wlroots-based wayland compositors

Still clunky Fuzzy matching, i.e.

gopass ls --flat | wofi -d -i -M fuzzy

bemenu

Dynamic menu library and client program inspired by dmenu

  • GitHub
  • C
  • 60+ contributors
  • Bemenu works good together with j4-dmenu-desktop
  • Works with wayland
  • Very good fuzzy matching (better than wofi)

Various other launchers

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