Looking for a good app launcher for Linux. Currently looking for something for Arch and I see there’s a lot of options liks rofi and wofi. What are your favourite app launchers and why?
Krunner is great.
I ended up coding my own.
Lots of stuff I’d want in an applications launcher on hyperland. I’d need it to have all the functions of the important system indicators and essentially take the role of the top panel in gnome.
I use rofi with these themes and scripts. Never needed anything else.
PieDock
Big fan of bash. Pretty sure it’s already installed for you.
Very comfortable with Rofi. It’s especially nice in a window manager as it also works as a switcher or shortcut to your open programs.
anyrun
I’m fine with Rofi. I’ve used xfce4-appfinder also, it’s less minimal, not configurable (good graphical defaults, might be what you want).
Launch your apps from terminal like a real Arch gangsta
So you’re using Hyprland WM… I’m assuming to have a minimalistic Window Manager… But you want an app launcher.
No offense, but FFS just use a DE at that point. You’re just creating a DE with extra steps. KDE is nice and fairly lightweight.
no, the point of Windows managers is not to be minimalistic
makes no sense, app launcher+ window manager is still wayy more minimalistic than de
Plasma has such a good tiling window manager now as well, with one of the most low resource draw frameworks powering it. But it isn’t cool and hip I guess!
how did you get tiling working in plasma? bismuth broke after plasma 6 the other ones are also really bad
Tiling is built into plasma after late versions of 5. You can hit super+T to change default layout, shift+drag window to snap to layout, and set custom keybinds for keybord navigation. There might be default settings but I set mine to mimic i3 of the bat so I couldnt tell you what they are…
that’s not even close to being as good as auto tiling in wm’s
Plasma ships with a tiling wm? I thought it was done using extensions like bismuth.
no, it doesn’t
They added native tiling a while back! I am running debian 12 with plasma 5.27 and it is super comfortable.
What’s an app launcher?
“The default application launcher in Ubuntu is provided by GNOME Shell, offering a full-screen grid of icons — but it isn’t to everyone’s tastes.”
bemenu. Type stuff in popup, press enter, no confettis thrown on your face.
I wish raycast was available!
if you come from Windows, liked the 10 start menu, and you want to use KDE, there’s a pretty similar launcher you can use: https://store.kde.org/p/2142716
it does not have collapsible groups and live tiles, but otherwise it’s pretty good I think
