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fuzzel — A Wayland-native application launcher and fuzzy finder, inspired by `rofi` and `dmenu`. More informa

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Problem

How to use the fuzzel command: A Wayland-native application launcher and fuzzy finder, inspired by rofi and dmenu. More information: <https://codeberg.org/dnkl/fuzzel>.

Solution

fuzzel — A Wayland-native application launcher and fuzzy finder, inspired by rofi and dmenu. More information: <https://codeberg.org/dnkl/fuzzel>.

Run applications:

fuzzel

Run fuzzel in dmenu mode:

fuzzel {{[-d|--dmenu]}}

Display a menu of the output of the ls command:

{{ls}} | fuzzel {{[-d|--dmenu]}}

Display a menu with custom items separated by a new line (\n):

echo -e "{{red}}\n{{green}}\n{{blue}}" | fuzzel {{[-d|--dmenu]}}

Let the user choose between multiple items and save the selected one to a file:

echo -e "{{red}}\n{{green}}\n{{blue}}" | fuzzel {{[-d|--dmenu]}} > {{color.txt}}

Reset apps usage count (default cache directory: $XDG_CACHE_HOME/fuzzel):

rm {{[-v|--verbose]}} $HOME/.cache/fuzzel

Launch fuzzel on a specific monitor, see wlr-randr or swaymsg --type get_outputs:

fuzzel {{[-o|--output]}} "{{DP-1}}"

Use fuzzel to do an online search:

fuzzel {{[-d|--dmenu]}} {{[-l|--lines]}} 0 --placeholder "{{Type your search}}" | sed 's/^/\"/g;s/$/\"/g' | xargs firefox --search

Code Snippets

Run applications

fuzzel

Run `fuzzel` in dmenu mode

fuzzel {{[-d|--dmenu]}}

Display a menu of the output of the `ls` command

{{ls}} | fuzzel {{[-d|--dmenu]}}

Display a menu with custom items separated by a new line (`\n`)

echo -e "{{red}}\n{{green}}\n{{blue}}" | fuzzel {{[-d|--dmenu]}}

Let the user choose between multiple items and save the selected one to a file

echo -e "{{red}}\n{{green}}\n{{blue}}" | fuzzel {{[-d|--dmenu]}} > {{color.txt}}

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