Rofi

A popup window switcher roughly based on superswitcher, requiring only xlib and xft. This version is based on the version from Sean Pringle. All credit for this great tool should go to him.

Some of the features of rofi are:

• Switcher centered on screen (or monitor for multi-head).

• Vertical list with two columns:

  1. Desktop number (optional, not shown in i3 mode)
  2. Window class.
  3. Window title.

• Controls like dmenu:

  • Type to filter windows.
  • Tokonized filter. Type any word in any order to filter.
  • Arrows to highlight selections.
  • Return to select.

• Rudimentary run dialog

  • Type to filter.
  • Tokonized filter. Type any word in any order to filter.
  • Arrows to highlight selections.
  • Return to select.
  • Shift-Return to run in terminal.
  • Favorites list.

• Quickly ssh into remote machines

  • Parses ~/.ssh/config to find hosts.

• Runs in background or once-off.

• Drop in dmenu replacement.

If compiled with I3 support, it should autodetect if I3 window manager is running.

Usage

e.g.

bindsym $mod+Tab exec rofi -now -font "snap-10" -fg "#505050" -bg "#000000" -hlfg "#ffb964" -hlbg "#000000" -o 85

Switching Between Modi

Type '?' (enter) to switch from Window list mode to Run mode and back.

Compilation

If compiling from GIT, first run to generate the needed build files:

autoreconf --install

To build rofi, run the following steps:

mkdir build/
cd build/
../configure
make
make install

The build system will autodetect the i3 header file during compilation. If it fails, make sure you have i3/ipc.h installed. Check config.log for more information.

Dependencies

Rofi requires the following tools and libraries to be installed:

• libx11
• libxinerama
• libxdg-basedir
• libxft

Configuration

There are 3 ways to configure rofi:

1. Pre-compile time

You can change the default behavior by modifying config/config.c

2. Xresources

Another solution is to configure it via X resources, e.g. add the following to your Xresources file:

rofi.background: #333
rofi.foreground: #1aa
rofi.highlightbg: #1aa
rofi.highlightfg: #111
rofi.bordercolor: #277
rofi.font: times-10
rofi.padding: 3
rofi.lines: 5
rofi.borderwidth: 3

3. Runtime

All the above settings can be overridden by rofi's commandline flags.

Archlinux

This version of rofi has been made available on the AUR.

Contact

Issues, feature requests can be filed at the github issue tracker.

If you need to ask a direct question or get support installing, please find us on IRC: #gmpc on freenode.net.