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?

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    So you’re using Hyprland WM… I’m assuming to have a minimalistic Window Manager… But you want an app launcher.

    No offense, but FFS just use a DE at that point. You’re just creating a DE with extra steps. KDE is nice and fairly lightweight.

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      2 months ago

      makes no sense, app launcher+ window manager is still wayy more minimalistic than de

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      2 months ago

      Plasma has such a good tiling window manager now as well, with one of the most low resource draw frameworks powering it. But it isn’t cool and hip I guess!

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        2 months ago

        how did you get tiling working in plasma? bismuth broke after plasma 6 the other ones are also really bad

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          2 months ago

          Tiling is built into plasma after late versions of 5. You can hit super+T to change default layout, shift+drag window to snap to layout, and set custom keybinds for keybord navigation. There might be default settings but I set mine to mimic i3 of the bat so I couldnt tell you what they are…

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            2 months ago

            that’s not even close to being as good as auto tiling in wm’s

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          2 months ago

          They added native tiling a while back! I am running debian 12 with plasma 5.27 and it is super comfortable.