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Hey, we've just implemented a new Wayland protocol extension in Sway which can be used for rofi-like purposes: layer-shell. This protocol is also slated to land in several other wayland compositors: Way Cooler, waymonad, and bspwc, to name a few. There are also upcoming plans to submit it to wayland-protocols and I'll be working with the KDE team on it as well in a couple of weeks.
I just ported a dmenu-like tool to layer-shell: https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu/pull/31
Please consider using this protocol for your Wayland backend.
ddevault
on 8 Apr 2018
You might have already spotted this effort: https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wofi
blaggacao
on 5 Nov 2019
You might have already spotted this effort: https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wofi
Sadly it uses GTK
nifker
on 5 Nov 2019
@nifker i don't understand. why is that sad?
edrex
on 18 Jan 2020
@edrex Because it loses its flair and most GTK applications feel a bit more sluggish.
A small comparison:
wofi: 55MB RAM and about 8%CPU usage per Core(6 Cores)
rofi: 16MB RAM and 0%CPU usage
nifker
on 18 Jan 2020
hello. current status?
ghost
on 31 Mar 2020
This issue will be updated if there is any work done at some point. Be patient or find another tool to match your needs.
sardemff7
on 31 Mar 2020
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Hey, we've just implemented a new Wayland protocol extension in Sway which can be used for rofi-like purposes: layer-shell. This protocol is also slated to land in several other wayland compositors: Way Cooler, waymonad, and bspwc, to name a few. There are also upcoming plans to submit it to wayland-protocols and I'll be working with the KDE team on it as well in a couple of weeks.
I just ported a dmenu-like tool to layer-shell: https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu/pull/31
Please consider using this protocol for your Wayland backend.