Rofi: Feature suggestion: Raw text input

[vktec]

While making some rofi scripts for interfacing with my window manager, I needed to get arbitrary user input from the user (for renaming a desktop). I would've liked to use rofi for this, as it has a clean, simple interface, but it doesn't seem to support it at the moment (let me know if I missed an option somewhere).

I ended up using Zenity instead, but I prefer rofi's interface and this seems like it would be a fairly trivial thing to add (if it doesn't already exist).

[carnager]

As mentioned on IRC:

bla=$(echo "" | rofi -dmenu -p "Enter Text > "); echo "${bla}"

[stevenengler]

You can also add -lines 0 -separator-style "none" to rofi to remove the unused bottom section.

Edit: don't do this, see below.

Edit 2: you can remove the "-" at the right side by making it case-insensitive using -i, since dmenu mode ignores -no-case-sensitive.

[DaveDavenport]

the previous solution is not preferred. With the new theme format you can disable this listview easily:

rofi -show run -theme-str 'listview { enabled: false;}'

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