Rofi started as clone of simpleswitcher, written by Sean Pringle a popup window switcher roughly based on superswitcher. Simpleswitcher laid the foundations and therefor Sean Pringle deserves most of the credit for this tool.
Anyrun AlternativesApplication Launchers and other similar apps like Anyrun
Anyrun is described as 'A wayland native, highly customizable runner' and is a application launcher in the education & reference category. There are nine alternatives to Anyrun for Linux, BSD, KDE Plasma and Wayland. The best Anyrun alternative is Rofi, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Anyrun are Walker, KRunner, dmenu and bemenu.
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35 Walker alternativesWalker is a highly extendable application launcher that doesn't hold back on features and usability. Fast. Unclutters your brain. Improves your workflow.
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79 dmenu alternativesdmenu is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for dwm. It manages large numbers of user-defined menu items efficiently.
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