Wayland launchers and menus

Launchers

• kickoff: rust, application launcher only ?

• ulauncher (python)

  • Ubuntu PPA available

• yofi: Rust

• fuzzel: Ugly, f

• Stale:

  • sirula: .desktop launcher only
  • lavalauncher
  • gmenu
  • mauncher
  • term-dmenu

Menus

• tofi
  • C, recent releases
  • Stylish overlay
  • Not supported by last tessen release (but in tessen main)
• wofi: Text based window
  • C
• bemenu
  • C
  • 60+ contributors
• dmenu-wayland

Rofi

• GitHub
  • Original rofi has no Wayland support
• Wayland-fork
  • pamac install rofi-wayland
• Default in manjaro-sway-edition
• C, recent releases
• Bundled themes: /usr/share/rofi/themes
• rofi-themes-collection
• A huge collection of Rofi based custom Applets, Launchers & Powermenus

Rofi Plugins

rofimoji

• GitHub
  • "Emoji, unicode and general character picker for rofi and rofi-likes"
  • pamac install rofimoji

Pass/Gopass

• tessen: Works fine
  • Supports tofi, rofi, yofi, wofi, fuzzel, bemenu
  • AUR package
• rofi-pass
  • doesn't support gopass yet
  • Requires xdotool which doesn't work on Wayland

bemenu + j4-dmenu-desktop

• GitHub
• Bemenu works good together with j4-dmenu-desktop