ROFI

PRIMARY CATEGORY → DESKTOP SETUP

ROFI → Application Launcher

Basically, It’s an application launcher and a ssh-launcher

Displays to the user a list of options from which one or more options can be selected

In this case, It is a list of the applications that are installed on the system

rofi is launched by the sxhkd daemon when a certain input event, such as a Hotkey, is performed

~/.config/sxhkd/sxhkdrc

# Rofi Launch
super + d
  /usr/bin/rofi -show run

Configuration File → ~/.config/rofi/config.rasi

IMPORTANT

It is not necessary to modify the above configuration file in this setup environment

More information here

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Installation

CAUTION

First, see the bspwm and the sxhkd’s installation before proceeding with this one related to rofi

There are some dependencies that are needed in the following installation steps

apt install -y -- rofi

That’s it!

$ command -V rofi
rofi is /usr/bin/rofi

IMPORTANT

Installation can be done either through the OS package manager or via the git clone command

Note that the default OS repositories listed in /etc/apt/sources.list file and in /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory may have older versions unlike the rofi’s official Github repository

As It is always is desirable to have the latest versions of any package or binary installed, I’d recommend installing them via their Github Repositories

Although, in this case the package’s version installed from the apt Package Manager differs only slightly from the github one

To run the component, simply map its launch to a certain keybind through a Hotkey Daemon such as sxhkd

~/.config/sxhkd/sxhkdrc

super + d # Windows + d
	/usr/bin/rofi -show run

Shortcut → Super-d

Themes

Reference

Create the ~/.config/rofi/themes to store .RASI File for each ROFI Theme →

mkdir -p -- ~/.config/rofi/themes

Clone the Github Repository below into /opt and copy all ROFI Themes to the directory created above →

sudo git clone https://github.com/newmanls/rofi-themes-collection /opt/rofi

cp -rv !$/themes/* ~/.config/rofi/themes

Open the ROFI Theme Selector and choose the Theme you like the most →

command -V -- rofi-theme-selector &> /dev/null && rofi-theme-selector