rofi2k is an universal application launcher based on rofi, has modern and minimalistic aesthetics.

✨ Features

• Launch any application on your system
• Window switcher with workspace support
• Explore and edit all files on your system
• Search and insert emojis

Setup

⚡ Requirements

• rofi
• rofi-emoji for using emoji search
• rofi-calc for using calculator

🚀 Installation

git clone https://github.com/2kabhishek/rofi2k
# Install
ln -sfnv $PWD/rofi2k ~/.config/rofi
# Run
rofi -show

If you already have a rofi config, append the lines in config.rasi and copy over themes.

💻 Usage

To run rofi do rofi -show mode

🤖 Modes

• drun: Launch apps
• window: Window switcher
• filebrowser: File explorer
• run: Launch commands
• emoji: Emoji search
• calc: Calculator
• ssh: Manage SSH sessions
• combi: Combo modes
• keys: Keyboard shortcuts

By default drun, window, filebrowser and run modes are enabled, to add more simply edit the config.rasi file

⌨️ Keybindings

You can invoke rofi directly from the command line, but it is recommended to have a keybinding configured.

Here's my recommended key bindings

Keybinding	Description	Command
Super + Space	Application Launcher	rofi -show drun
Super + Tab	Window Switcher	rofi -show window
Super + .	Emoji Search	rofi -show emoji

What's Next

Planning to add more useful panels.

Behind The Code

🌈 Inspiration

rofi2k was inspired by posts on r/unixporn and a need for a functional application launcher.

💡 Challenges/Learnings

• Battling my OCD of trying to get everything just right. 😆
• Learned about the rofi ecosystem

🧰 Tooling

• dots2k — Dev Environment
• nvim2k — Personalized Editor
• awesome2k — Tiling Window Manager

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