I don’t know if anyone is interested in this but I thought I would share anyways. I really don’t like rofi/wofi that much so I went looking for some other app launchers and I came across these two.
Multi-Purpose Launcher with a lot of features. Highly Customizable and fast.
Application drawer for wlroots-based Wayland compositors
I really like the first one because it seems like a more modern looking rofi/wofi, the second has more of a gnome app launcher look but is quite nice too but I like the simplicity of the first one while also being more modern looking.
And for those who might want a classic menu in Hyprland I came across this.
MenuStart plugin to nwg-panel, also capable of working standalone
The nwg ones are in the default repos and walker is in the AUR.
Edit Changed the topic titles as it was more appropriate for the replies
xircon:
I use rofi-wayland:
Looks a lot better than wofi. How did you configure it to look like that and to make the desktop icons appear like that? I’m actually using walker now and like how it uses gtk theming so don’t really have to do anything to them it since it uses my already GTK used theme for other stuff and it shows the desktop applications icons out of the box.
xircon
May 11, 2025, 11:46am
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configuration {
/* modes: "drun,run,emoji,clipboard:cliphist-rofi-img";*/
modes: "drun,run,emoji";
font: "mono 14";
/* location: 0;*/
/* yoffset: 0;*/
/* xoffset: 0;*/
/* fixed-num-lines: true;*/
show-icons: true;
/* terminal: "rofi-sensible-terminal";*/
/* ssh-client: "ssh";*/
/* ssh-command: "{terminal} -e {ssh-client} {host} [-p {port}]";*/
/* run-command: "{cmd}";*/
/* web-command: "/home/xircon/.config/rofi/websearch.sh";*/
/* run-list-command: "";*/
/* run-shell-command: "{terminal} -e {cmd}";*/
/* window-command: "wmctrl -i -R {window}";*/
/* window-match-fields: "all";*/
/* icon-theme: ;*/
/* drun-match-fields: "name,generic,exec,categories,keywords";*/
/* drun-categories: ;*/
/* drun-show-actions: false;*/
/* drun-display-format: "{name} [<span weight='light' size='small'><i>({generic})</i></span>]";*/
/* drun-url-launcher: "xdg-open";*/
/* disable-history: false;*/
/* ignored-prefixes: "";*/
/* sort: false;*/
/* sorting-method: "normal";*/
/* case-sensitive: false;*/
/* cycle: true;*/
/* sidebar-mode: false;*/
/* hover-select: false;*/
/* eh: 1;*/
/* auto-select: false;*/
/* parse-hosts: false;*/
/* parse-known-hosts: true;*/
/* combi-modes: "window,run";*/
/* matching: "normal";*/
/* tokenize: true;*/
/* m: "-5";*/
/* filter: ;*/
/* dpi: -1;*/
/* threads: 0;*/
/* scroll-method: 0;*/
/* window-format: "{w} {c} {t}";*/
/* click-to-exit: true;*/
/* max-history-size: 25;*/
/* combi-hide-mode-prefix: false;*/
/* combi-display-format: "{mode} {text}";*/
/* matching-negate-char: '-' /* unsupported */;*/
cache-dir: "/home/xircon/.config/rofi/cache/" ;
/* window-thumbnail: false;*/
/* drun-use-desktop-cache: false;*/
/* drun-reload-desktop-cache: false;*/
/* normalize-match: false;*/
/* steal-focus: false;*/
/* application-fallback-icon: ;*/
/* refilter-timeout-limit: 8192;*/
/* xserver-i300-workaround: false;*/
/* pid: "/run/user/1000/rofi.pid";*/
/* display-run: ;*/
/* display-ssh: ;*/
/* display-drun: ;*/
/* display-combi: ;*/
/* display-keys: ;*/
/* display-filebrowser: ;*/
/* kb-primary-paste: "Control+V,Shift+Insert";*/
/* kb-secondary-paste: "Control+v,Insert";*/
/* kb-clear-line: "Control+w";*/
/* kb-move-front: "Control+a";*/
/* kb-move-end: "Control+e";*/
/* kb-move-word-back: "Alt+b,Control+Left";*/
/* kb-move-word-forward: "Alt+f,Control+Right";*/
/* kb-move-char-back: "Left,Control+b";*/
/* kb-move-char-forward: "Right,Control+f";*/
/* kb-remove-word-back: "Control+Alt+h,Control+BackSpace";*/
/* kb-remove-word-forward: "Control+Alt+d";*/
/* kb-remove-char-forward: "Delete,Control+d";*/
/* kb-remove-char-back: "BackSpace,Shift+BackSpace,Control+h";*/
/* kb-remove-to-eol: "Control+k";*/
/* kb-remove-to-sol: "Control+u";*/
/* kb-accept-entry: "Control+j,Control+m,Return,KP_Enter";*/
/* kb-accept-custom: "Control+Return";*/
/* kb-accept-custom-alt: "Control+Shift+Return";*/
/* kb-accept-alt: "Shift+Return";*/
/* kb-delete-entry: "Shift+Delete";*/
/* kb-mode-next: "Shift+Right,Control+Tab";*/
/* kb-mode-previous: "Shift+Left,Control+ISO_Left_Tab";*/
/* kb-mode-complete: "Control+l";*/
/* kb-row-left: "Control+Page_Up";*/
/* kb-row-right: "Control+Page_Down";*/
/* kb-row-up: "Up,Control+p";*/
/* kb-row-down: "Down,Control+n";*/
/* kb-row-tab: "";*/
/* kb-element-next: "Tab";*/
/* kb-element-prev: "ISO_Left_Tab";*/
/* kb-page-prev: "Page_Up";*/
/* kb-page-next: "Page_Down";*/
/* kb-row-first: "Home,KP_Home";*/
/* kb-row-last: "End,KP_End";*/
/* kb-row-select: "Control+space";*/
/* kb-screenshot: "Alt+S";*/
/* kb-ellipsize: "Alt+period";*/
/* kb-toggle-case-sensitivity: "grave,dead_grave";*/
/* kb-toggle-sort: "Alt+grave";*/
/* kb-cancel: "Escape,Control+g,Control+bracketleft";*/
/* kb-custom-1: "Alt+1";*/
/* kb-custom-2: "Alt+2";*/
/* kb-custom-3: "Alt+3";*/
/* kb-custom-4: "Alt+4";*/
/* kb-custom-5: "Alt+5";*/
/* kb-custom-6: "Alt+6";*/
/* kb-custom-7: "Alt+7";*/
/* kb-custom-8: "Alt+8";*/
/* kb-custom-9: "Alt+9";*/
/* kb-custom-10: "Alt+0";*/
/* kb-custom-11: "Alt+exclam";*/
/* kb-custom-12: "Alt+at";*/
/* kb-custom-13: "Alt+numbersign";*/
/* kb-custom-14: "Alt+dollar";*/
/* kb-custom-15: "Alt+percent";*/
/* kb-custom-16: "Alt+dead_circumflex";*/
/* kb-custom-17: "Alt+ampersand";*/
/* kb-custom-18: "Alt+asterisk";*/
/* kb-custom-19: "Alt+parenleft";*/
/* kb-select-1: "Super+1";*/
/* kb-select-2: "Super+2";*/
/* kb-select-3: "Super+3";*/
/* kb-select-4: "Super+4";*/
/* kb-select-5: "Super+5";*/
/* kb-select-6: "Super+6";*/
/* kb-select-7: "Super+7";*/
/* kb-select-8: "Super+8";*/
/* kb-select-9: "Super+9";*/
/* kb-select-10: "Super+0";*/
/* ml-row-left: "ScrollLeft";*/
/* ml-row-right: "ScrollRight";*/
/* ml-row-up: "ScrollUp";*/
/* ml-row-down: "ScrollDown";*/
/* me-select-entry: "MousePrimary";*/
/* me-accept-entry: "MouseDPrimary";*/
/* me-accept-custom: "Control+MouseDPrimary";*/
timeout {
action: "kb-cancel";
delay: 0;
}
filebrowser {
directories-first: true;
sorting-method: "name";
}
}
@theme "/home/xircon/.config/rofi/spotlight-dark.rasi"
//@theme "/usr/share/rofi/themes/rounded-nord-dark.rasi"
//@theme "/usr/share/rofi/themes/spotlight-dark.rasi"
listview {
columns: 2;
}
/*******************************************************************************
* MACOS SPOTLIGHT LIKE DARK THEME FOR ROFI
* User : LR-Tech
* Theme Repo : https://github.com/lr-tech/rofi-themes-collection
*******************************************************************************/
* {
font: "Montserrat 14";
bg0: #242424E1;
bg1: #7E7E7E80;
bg2: #551999E6; /* Purple bar highlight */
fg0: #DEDEDE;
fg1: #FFFFFF;
fg2: #DEDEDE80;
background-color: transparent;
text-color: @fg0;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
spacing: 0;
}
window {
background-color: @bg0;
location: center;
width: 840;
border-radius: 8;
}
inputbar {
font: "Montserrat 16";
padding: 12px;
spacing: 12px;
children: [ icon-search, entry ];
}
icon-search {
expand: false;
filename: "search";
size: 28px;
}
icon-search, entry, element-icon, element-text {
vertical-align: 0.5;
}
entry {
font: inherit;
placeholder : "Search";
placeholder-color : @fg2;
}
message {
border: 2px 0 0;
border-color: @bg1;
background-color: @bg1;
}
textbox {
padding: 8px 24px;
}
listview {
lines: 10;
columns: 1;
fixed-height: false;
border: 1px 0 0;
border-color: @bg1;
}
element {
padding: 8px 16px;
spacing: 16px;
background-color: transparent;
}
element normal active {
text-color: @bg2;
}
element selected normal, element selected active {
background-color: @bg2;
text-color: @fg1;
}
element-icon {
size: 2em;
}
element-text {
text-color: inherit;
}
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Ulauncher is Wayland compatible and has some nice extensions.
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