README.md
April 24, 2025 · View on GitHub
A general purpose application launcher for X and wayland inspired
by rofi/wofi and alfred,
build with iced
and pop-launcher.
Onagre is build on top of pop-launcher which makes it very versatile. The pop-launcher plugin system allow you to extend Onagre with plugins from the community or even write your own using any programming language.
Features
- Works on x11 and wayland.
- Fully customizable theme.
- Default plugins: calc, files, pop_shell, recent, terminal, desktop entries, find, pulse, scripts, web.
- Can be extended with pop-launcher plugins.
Install
Dependencies:
- ⚠️ pop-launcher > 1.2.4 Rust 1.8 introduced a breaking change in the way sorting is handled, onagre will unexpectedly crash with older version of pop launcher. Currently, for arch users, the only way to get the latest version of pop-launcher is to build it from source.
- Qalculate (optional)
If there is no distro package available for Onagre in your preferred manager, you need Rust and cargo to build it.
From source:
git clone https://github.com/oknozor/onagre.git
cd onagre
cargo build --release --locked
sudo mv target/release/onagre /usr/bin/onagre
Latest release with cargo:
cargo install --git https://github.com/onagre-launcher/onagre --tag 1.0.0
Latest upstream with cargo:
cargo install --git https://github.com/onagre-launcher/onagre
Usage
1. Key bindings:
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
Arrow up/down | Change selection |
Tab | Autocomplete (in files mode) |
Esc | Quit without launching |
Enter | Launch selection |
2. Plugins:
To use a plugin simply match its regex when typing your query.
For instance the file plugin will match ^(/|~).*, typing ~/ would enable the plugin and start the file navigation.
Plugin with no prefix are enabled by default, there entry will be mixed in the search results.
Default plugins:
| Mode | Description | Prefix | Configuration |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | Display the most used desktop entries on start | ||
| PopLauncher | Search for desktop entries | ||
| Pulse | Control PulseAudio devices and volume | ||
| Script | Shell scripts as launcher options | $HOME/.local/share/pop-launcher/scripts | |
| Terminal | Terminal or background commands | 'run ' | |
| Web | Web search | 'ddg ', 'g', ... | $HOME/.local/share/pop-launcher/plugins/web/config.ron |
| Files | Find files using fd/find | 'find ' | |
| Recent | Recently-opened document search | 'recent ' | |
| Calc | Calculator with unit conversion (uses Qalculate! expressions) | '= ' | |
| Help | List available pop-launcher modes | '?' |
Theming
Onagre will look for a theme file in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/onagre/theme.scss and will fallback to the default theme if none
is found or if your theme contains syntax errors. To ensure your theme is correctly formatted run onagre from the terminal.
For a detailed guide refer to wiki -> theming , or take a look at the theme examples directory.
Gallery
Default theme
Darcula
Hollow
Related projects
Code of conduct
This project is bound by a code of conduct based on the contributor covenant if you are not familiar with it, and want to contribute please, read it before going further.
Contributing
Having a question or suggestion for a new feature ? Feel free to open an issue or submit a PR. Currently, what we need the most is feedback from users using different window managers and hardware. If Onagre does not work out of the box for you please let us know, so we can fix it.
License
All the code in this repository is released under the MIT License, for more information take a look at the LICENSE file.
Thanks
Credit to @themou3ad for the logo!