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Rofi

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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.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Platforms

  • Linux
4.3 / 5 Avg rating (3)
21 likes
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Support for Themes

Features

  1.  Command line interface
  2.  Support for scripting
  3.  Application Launchers
  4.  Window Switching
  5.  File Search

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Rofi information

  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.3
  • Alternatives

    32 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Rofi, and it has gotten 21 likes

Rofi was added to AlternativeTo by zygimantus on Nov 1, 2016 and this page was last updated Mar 13, 2020.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Dawid Ferenczy
  
Top positive commentDec 15, 2023

Apart from the application launcher capability, the best feature is the full-text search and quick switching of opened windows.

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Lunatica
  
Positive commentNov 20, 2020

good overall. has performance issues though IIRC due to indexing or caching

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Tanath
  
Positive commentFeb 15, 2018

Very fast, lightweight, and configurable. So fast it doesn't even need to run in the background like other launchers.

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What is Rofi?

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.