Fuzzel: A great dmenu and rofi alternative for Wayland

Fuzzel is a versatile app and utility launcher for Wayland. If you are familiar with dmenu and rofi, fuzzel is largely compatible with them.

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What's Fuzzel good for?

Besides launching applications, as a dmenu alternative Fuzzel can be used for many utility tasks. These include:

• Emoji picker with bemoji
• Password picker, with dmenu-lpass
• TOTP MFA code picker, with yubikey-oath-dmenu
• Clipboard picker, with clipman
• Download picker, with dmenufm
• Network connection picker with networkmanger_dmenu
• Qutebrowser history/bookmark picker with dmenu_qutebrowser
• Picking a window, output, or workspace to switch to with swayr

Fuzzel's features

For app launching

• Fuzzy-find applications from a list and launch them
• Icon support
• Remembers frequently launched applications
• Customize which .desktop files are searched
• Option to filter apps based on OnlyShowIn and NotShowIn
• Startup notification support
• Launch prefix option to customize how apps are launched
• Display a large icon of current selection if there are only a few matches
• Option to display executables in $PATH
• Option to execute the input rather than return an app
• Support for localized strings

For dmenu mode

• dmenu mode where newline separated entries are read from STDIN
• Support for Rofi's protocol to support icons
• Optional cache with custom path
• Password mode
• Prompt-only mode
• Exact-match option to support multi-stage menus
• Option to return index of what's selected rather than what's selected
• Some dmenu option compatibility. Invoking it as dmenu enables dmenu mode
• Option for null-separated input

For all modes

• Numerous customizable key bindings, based on Emacs
• Mouse support
• Paste support
• A number of theming options, which can be set in a separate include file
• fzf-style matching with ability to filter huge lists
• Optimized for performance
• Zsh and Fish completions
• Support for true fractional scaling
• Wayland native

For details, see man fuzzel and man fuzzel.ini

Here's my Fuzzel config from ~/.config/fuzzel/fuzzel.ini:

dpi-aware=no
icon-theme=Papirus-Dark
width=25
font=Hack:weight=bold:size=36
line-height=50
fields=name,generic,comment,categories,filename,keywords
terminal=foot -e
prompt="❯   "
show-actions=yes
exit-on-keyboard-focus-loss=no

[colors]
background=282a36fa
selection=3d4474fa
border=fffffffa

[border]
radius=20

[dmenu]
exit-immediately-if-empty=yes

Example swayr config for fuzzel

Here's a swayr config from ~/.config/swayr/config.toml that can be used with swayr switch-window. It demonstrates using an emoji in a prompt and also use's Fuzzel's new support for icons in dmenu mode:

[menu]
executable = 'fuzzel'
args = [
    '--dmenu',
     '--prompt=🪟❯ ',
     '--width=100',
     '--font=Hack Nerd Font Mono:style=Bold:size=18',
     '--line-height=28',
]

[format]
window_format = "{app_name:{:<11.11}} “{title:{:<60.60}...}” {id:{:<3.3}} on {workspace_name:{:<13.13}}\u0000icon\u001f{app_icon}"
indent = '    '

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