Questions tagged [rofi]
Rofi is a window switcher, run dialog, ssh-launcher and dmenu replacement that started as a clone of simpleswitcher.
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Issue with wallpaper changing while hovering over names in Rofi — where am I going wrong?
I’ve written a script to change my wallpaper with Rofi, but I’m having a problem. While I hover over the wallpaper names in the rofi menu, the wallpaper is not changing dynamically for like a ...
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Open reference from Zotero using rofi / dmenu
I have a number of collections in Zotero (a bibliography manager). I would like to be able to open the associated PDFs using rofi or dmenu, and have a list of entries to choose from of the following ...
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Adding a Wine `.lnk` Program to Rofi
I was able to add a program (KaTrain) — which I installed with pipx — to Rofi, following this nice answer:
[Desktop Entry]
Exec=/home/phili/.local/bin/katrain
Type=Application
Categories=Go
Name=...
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Why is the scanned bluetooth devices not showing on `Rofi` bluetooth menu using `bluetoothctl`?
Why is the rofi menu not showing available the bluetooth devices when it's enabled and scanned via bluetoothctl? Here is the script that is used to make a shortcut to open a rofi styled bluetooth menu:...
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Rofi leaves unresponsive terminals after run-shell-command | `Q` or `Ctrl-C` don't work
I'm trying to switch from using dmenu to rofi on my system, on which
I use i3wm. I have the following keybinding:
bindsym $mod+Ctrl+d exec --no-startup-id rofi -combi-modi
window#drun#run -show combi -...
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Automatically resize rofi menu height
I want rofi to automatically resize menu's height to the number of available options. There is an option -lines but with it I could only pass constant number. So for each call I'm forced to execute ...
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Piping continuous output into rofi
I'm trying to write a bash script to pipe strings into rofi. These strings are continuously generated by a function gen_x.
The function gen_x sometimes (only when a condition is met) outputs new ...
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How to get full path names of all opened pdf files (in zathura) - like rofi does
I am trying to get the full path of every PDF that I have opened in the zathura viewer. I know it is possible, since with rofi -show window, I can see the full path.
I have tried running
ps -p $(pgrep ...
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All daemons show in 'rofi -show run' using qtile
I'm having a problem using rofi launcher with qtile Window Manager, the problem is that when I execute "rofi -show run" (with my keybind assignment) and I get a list of all the daemons ...
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Cannot start rofi
getting this error after I updated by system yesterday, running endevouros i3 flavor.
The following errors where detected when starting rofi:
Failed to set binding Tab for: Go to next element (in ...
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How to launch application with rofi using i3wm's exec?
I had this issue and now I know how to solve it. I need to launch applications with i3wm's exec command.
ButI use rofi as launchmenu and I have no idea how to make it lauch applications with i3wm's ...
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Where is the rofi configuration file?
Where is the rofi configuration file? The various manual/help files are wrong. They state that it is /etc/rofi.rasi but this file does not exist on my system. Furthermore, ~/.config/rofi is empty. The ...
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Why does pkill not work with rofi?
I want to toggle rofi an application launcher with one keybinding. I made a shell script,
#!/bin/bash
rofi -dpi 1 -modi drun -show drun -show-icons
And bound it to some key. This works but to toggle ...
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Is it possible to tell linux to look for .desktop files in a directory?
I started using rofi as an application launcher using its drun function. It works fine, .desktop files in /usr/share/applications and $HOME/.local/share/applications both show on it with no problems. ...
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Executing typed Rofi command, not what is selected?
Is there a way to execute the typed command in Rofi, instead of what is highlighted? I'm having an issue where I'm trying to execute gnome-screenshot -a, but Rofi keeps selecting gnome-screenshot -d 2,...
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