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Rofi

A window switcher, run dialog and application launcher.

Free Open Source
Linux

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. Rofi, renamed as it lost the simple property, has been extended with extra features, like a run-dialog, ssh-launcher and can act as a drop-in dmenu replacement, making it a very versatile tool. Rofi, like dmenu, will provide the user with a textual list of options where one or more can be selected. This can either be, running an application, selecting a window or options provided by an external script.... More Info »

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application-launcher window-switching

Rofi was added by zygimantus in Nov 2016 and the latest update was made in Nov 2016. The list of alternatives was updated Apr 2017 There is a history of all activites on Rofi in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on Rofi or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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