rofi users? anyone?

[Member manyroads]

Hello all.

I am attempting to use rofi in my bspwm exploration. I can get it to run and work without difficulty. It is FAAAASSSSSSTTTT! What I am seeking are tips & pointers from anyone with experience(s) to share. TIA.

Pax vobiscum,
Mark Rabideau - http://many-roads.com
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." H. L. Mencken
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Rofi was one of the app launchers that I tried in my quest for an app finder/launcher. It worked fine, but didn’t look that great (which is likely solvable via theming), and if I recall stayed running in memory. My choice after trying Rofi, Kupfer, xfce4-appfinder, dmenu, jdmenu and one other was xfce4-appfinder. It looked good and had good functionality, but did also stay in memory. I guess on the machines I have with lots of memory, it doesn’t matter, but on the pre-2000 machines they are almost always tight.

[Member manyroads]

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@BobC I have no problem running rofi… it is truly blazing fast. I am hopeful someone will have dotfiles to share. I have found some nice themes, and will share my dotfiles once I get that far. Right now I have polybar working well, I, also, am pretty happy with my tint2 setup. Everything is running in bspwm which I think is quite excellent. I’m building for both the antiX and MX OSes.

My target platform used to be memory constrained but I found a $24 8GB RAM chip that the pc supposedly does not support (although it seems to work well). So memory is no longer a problem. But the machine is a practically new… 2006. 😉

Pax vobiscum,
Mark Rabideau - http://many-roads.com
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." H. L. Mencken
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[Member ex_Koo]

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With rofi I just edit the theme file its self and I use Monokai.rasi Which is found at /usr/share/rofi/themes copy a backup first. with Deb10 anyway

You can change themes on the fly by typing theme or rofi then select run rofi-theme-selector scroll down to the theme you wish to use press enter to preview the theme or ALT-a to use that theme.

I edit the theme as root with vim or geany that way the next time I open rofi the change is already done and I don’t loose my way with the last line that I have just edited. On the fly so to speak..

You can also edit your rofi from your .config file as like this line of code (## bindsym $mod+d exec rofi -opacity “85” window -show combi) from my i3 you can find more about this on the web.

Also from your .Xresources file more on the web..
! Rofi
rofi.opacity: 50

budlabs rofi editing and a whole lot more.. Sorry I know you do like video’s

————Off Topic———–

Config Files Scrot,s and config files

Every tiling windows manager 2016 This lady explains and shows you how every tiling type manager works 2hr

Please don’t ask about how much memory usage cpu power or disk space I have no interest at all in any of these things. 2019

[Member manyroads]

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Thank you @Koo those are great tips. I just discovered how much better rofi works in Debian 10 (antiX19b1) than it does on MX. There’s no comparison. Like you I’m not worried about mem & cpu. A week a go I took all the family wealth ($24USD) and bought 8GB of mem for our 12+ year old laptop, that is the target platform for my efforts.

btw. I think I will break down and watch the videos you mentioned; although it will take me a while to get through them.

I do believe I’ll keep my version of antiX19 as a rolling release. Hopefully I won’t break it. 😉 If I don’t stay in ‘rolling mode’, I think Debian’s release cycle is too slow to keep pace with bspwm, rofi and a few other tools I’m beginning to understand and enjoy.

Again thanks!

Pax vobiscum,
Mark Rabideau - http://many-roads.com
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." H. L. Mencken
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[Member ex_Koo]

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I just checked Debian repos both buster and sid..

Debian rofi=1.5.1-1 / Git rofi=1.5.4
Debian bspwm=0.9.5-1 / Git 0.9.7

At least Debian keeps i3 up to date. 🙂

In the past with MX17 I had rofi running just great but was a Source build with meson.

The biggest trouble I had was with version dependence for the source build, these were installed from source as the repo versions were to old for the build..meson etc

I like what you are doing with your version of antiX19 the only thing that troubles me is their repos are too unreliable so I have removed it from my main machine still have it on my x220 and T430 but have not updated it in ages I run Debian-10 both these tops. Will install MX-19 on my main after release as their repos are reliable..

Keep up the Good work you are doing nice to see someone heading in a new Direction instead of GUI all the time. You have my Vote..

[Member manyroads]

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Thanks @Koo. My objective is to broaden my horizons and try new things. I can’t expect my grandchildren do that which I avoid.(I have two grandsons). 🙂

Pax vobiscum,
Mark Rabideau - http://many-roads.com
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." H. L. Mencken
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