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# A window switcher, Application launcher and dmenu replacement
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**Rofi** started as a clone of simpleswitcher, written by [Sean Pringle](http://github.com/seanpringle/simpleswitcher) - a
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popup window switcher roughly based on [superswitcher](http://code.google.com/p/superswitcher/).
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Simpleswitcher laid the foundations, and therefore Sean Pringle deserves most of the credit for this tool. **Rofi**
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(renamed, as it lost the *simple* property) has been extended with extra features, like an application launcher and
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ssh-launcher, and can act as a drop-in dmenu replacement, making it a very versatile tool.
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**Rofi**, like dmenu, will provide the user with a textual list of options where one or more can be selected.
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This can either be running an application, selecting a window, or options provided by an external script.
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Its main features are:
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* Fully configurable keyboard navigation
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* Type to filter
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* Tokenized: type any word in any order to filter
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* Case insensitive (togglable)
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* Support for fuzzy-, regex-, and glob matching
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* UTF-8 enabled
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* UTF-8-aware string collating
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* International keyboard support (\`e -> è)
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* RTL language support
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* Cairo drawing and Pango font rendering
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* Built-in modes:
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* Window switcher mode
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* EWMH compatible WM
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* Application launcher
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* Desktop file application launcher
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* SSH launcher mode
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* Combi mode, allowing several modes to be merged into one list
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* History-based ordering — last 25 choices are ordered on top based on use (optional)
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* Levenshtein distance or fzf like sorting of matches (optional)
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* Drop-in dmenu replacement
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* Many added improvements
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* Easily extensible using scripts and plugins
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* Advanced Theming
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**Rofi** has several built-in modi implementing common use cases and can be extended by scripts (either called from
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**Rofi** or calling **Rofi**) or plugins.
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Below is a list of the different modi:
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* **run**: launch applications from $PATH, with option to launch in terminal.
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* **drun**: launch applications based on desktop files. It tries to be compliant to the XDG standard.
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* **window**: Switch between windows on an EWMH compatible window manager.
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* **ssh**: Connect to a remote host via ssh.
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* **file-browser**: A basic file-browser for opening files.
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* **keys**: list internal keybindings.
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* **script**: Write (limited) custom mode using simple scripts.
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* **combi**: Combine multiple modi into one.
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**Rofi** is known to work on Linux and BSD.
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# Screenshots
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# Manpage
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For more up to date information, please see the manpages:
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* Manpages:
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* [rofi](doc/rofi.1.markdown)
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* [rofi-theme](doc/rofi-theme.5.markdown)
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* [rofi-script](doc/rofi-script.5.markdown)
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* [rofi-theme-selector](doc/rofi-theme-selector.1.markdown)
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* Discussion places:
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* [Reddit](https://reddit.com/r/qtools/)
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* [GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/discussions)
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* IRC (#rofi on irc.libera.chat)
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* [wiki](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/wiki) (Currently unmaintained).
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# Installation
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Please see the [installation guide](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/blob/next/INSTALL.md) for instructions on how to
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install **Rofi**.
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# What is rofi not?
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Rofi is not:
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* A UI toolkit.
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* A library to be used in other applications.
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* An application that can support every possible use-case. It tries to be generic enough to be usable by everybody.
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* Specific functionality can be added using scripts or plugins, many exists.
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* Just a dmenu replacement. The dmenu functionality is a nice 'extra' to **rofi**, not its main purpose.
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