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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?

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Arch is just a distro. What DE or Window manager are you on, Wayland or still XOrg?

rofi and wofi are a good example how this question makes no sense.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You're right I sbould have included that in the question. I'm on Hyprland with Wayland so there are quite a few choices. I mentioned rofi (rofi-wayland) and wofi because I can see that they are both options here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Fuzzel works great for me on Hyprland.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I use a Wayland version of rofi when I use hyprland though wofi probably works fine too (which I believe is default as per the config).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

True, rofi works on Wayland now