Rofi... making it fly faster...

[manyroads]

As many of you know, Rofi is a powerful dmenu 'replacement' menu. It 'supposedly' runs faster by some 25% if used with j4-dmenu rather than plain dmenu. I have not measured the speed, but I can say it is blistering fast on my machines. If you have not used it either way, here are some examples. Simply mate these with your preferred keybindings and place them in an autostart. These will work with any Desktop Environment or Window Manager.

Rofi showing all active applications: with & without j4-dmenu

without j4-dmenu==> rofi -modi window -show window -show-icons -sidebar-mode
with j4-dmenu==> j4-dmenu-desktop --dmenu='rofi -modi window -show window -show-icons -sidebar-mode'

Compound rofi fully searchable menu: with & without j4-dmenu

without j4-dmenu==> rofi -modi drun,window,run -show drun -show-icons -sidebar-mode -location 0 -width 360
with j4-dmenu==> j4-dmenu-desktop --dmenu='rofi -modi drun,window,run -show drun -show-icons -sidebar-mode -location 0 -width 360'

[thomasl]

https://github.com/enkore/j4-dmenu-desktop
Including this link for those who don't know the software would have been nice

[Jerry3904]

I brought it into MX Fluxbox where it is already super fast.

[manyroads]

https://github.com/enkore/j4-dmenu-desktop
Including this link for those who don't know the software would have been nice

@thomasl The j4-dmenu-desktop is actually available via synaptic or apt....

[manyroads]

@jerry3904 I, also, use rofi, dmenu, & j4-dmenu-desktop on xfce4, gnome, iceWM, jwm as well as my preferred dwm....
It also works on any arch or debian based distro.

[ceeslans]

<snip>
It 'supposedly' runs faster by some 25% if used with j4-dmenu rather than plain dmenu.
</snip>

Thanks Mark. With j4-dmenu it does run faster...
And your command examples are definitely helpful.

[thomasl]

https://github.com/enkore/j4-dmenu-desktop
Including this link for those who don't know the software would have been nice

@thomasl The j4-dmenu-desktop is actually available via synaptic or apt....

Yeah, I know I actually did check the repos before I posted this.

However, the fact that some XYZ software is available in the repos doesn't tell me anything about what it actually does. Maybe I somehow should've divined that frpm the MXPI listing