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wofi — An application launcher for wlroots-based Wayland compositors, similar to `rofi` and `dmenu`. More i

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Problem

How to use the wofi command: An application launcher for wlroots-based Wayland compositors, similar to rofi and dmenu. More information: <https://manned.org/wofi>.

Solution

wofi — An application launcher for wlroots-based Wayland compositors, similar to rofi and dmenu. More information: <https://manned.org/wofi>.

Show the list of apps:

wofi {{[-S|--show]}} drun

Show the list of all commands:

wofi {{[-S|--show]}} run

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

printf "{{Choice1\nChoice2\nChoice3}}" | wofi {{[-d|--dmenu]}}

Code Snippets

Show the list of apps

wofi {{[-S|--show]}} drun

Show the list of all commands

wofi {{[-S|--show]}} run

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

printf "{{Choice1\nChoice2\nChoice3}}" | wofi {{[-d|--dmenu]}}

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