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rofi — An application launcher and window switcher. More information: <https://github.com/davatorium/rofi#m

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How to use the rofi command: An application launcher and window switcher. More information: <https://github.com/davatorium/rofi#manpage>.

rofi — An application launcher and window switcher. More information: <https://github.com/davatorium/rofi#manpage>.

Show the list of apps:

rofi -show drun

Show the list of all commands:

rofi -show run

Switch between windows:

rofi -show window

Pipe a list of items to stdin and print the selected item to stdout:

printf "{{Choice1\nChoice2\nChoice3}}" | rofi -dmenu

Show the list of apps

rofi -show drun

Show the list of all commands

rofi -show run

Switch between windows

rofi -show window

Pipe a list of items to `stdin` and print the selected item to `stdout`

printf "{{Choice1\nChoice2\nChoice3}}" | rofi -dmenu

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