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?

  • ctr1@fl0w.ccEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Ah nice! Thanks for the suggestion. Yeah --preview is a great feature that is good to remember.

    And true, it’s better to use find -executable than ls. Although in my case I would use -type f -o -type l since I want to include symlinks (often I will cd into my local bin folder and ln -s $(which ) to add it to my launcher). I’m using ls since I only put executables in there and using relative file paths so that it’s nicer to look at. But cd or sed would work as well

    Yeah the xargs + i3-msg part is a bit clunky but I’m not sure what else to do, since the terminal window needs to close immediately, which prevents the application from running. I tried a few variations with nohup and launching in the background, but haven’t found another solution. But I’m sure there’s a way