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Fuzzel 1.13 adds new features for menu building and usability

Fuzzel 1.13 adds new features for menu building and usability

Fuzzel, a popular Linux app-launcher and menu building tool on Linux has recently released version 1.13. While Fuzzel may be best known as an app launcher, it's a popular choice for building little menus. See What's Fuzzel Good For? for examples. In the 1.12

Vintage computer keyboard with arrow pointing to physical copy and paste keys

Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux

On Linux, Control-C and Control-V don't work for copying and pasting in terminals. The Control modifier is used for its original purpose of inserting control codes. Instead, terminal apps require an extra Shift modifier, like Control+Shift+C. But what if there were hidden shortcut combos for copy

Fuzzel, app launcher and fuzzy finder has feature-packed 1.11 release

Fuzzel, app launcher and fuzzy finder has feature-packed 1.11 release

Fuzzel is a Wayland-native app launcher and fuzzy finder for Linux, inspired by Rofi and dmenu. The five-year-old Fuzzel project recently had a feature-packed 1.11 release. Here's a visual rundown of what's new. Instant filtering of huge lists 0:00 /0:08 1× Fuzzel was

Rofi alternatives for Wayland: app launcher, window switcher and picker for Linux

Rofi alternatives for Wayland: app launcher, window switcher and picker for Linux

Last updated: August, 2025 Rofi is a popular window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement for Linux. dmenu was a tiny text-only utility to display a list of lines of text and select one. The dmenu design follows the Unix philosophy to "do one thing well". Simple! Rofi

What's new in Fuzzel 1.10

What's new in Fuzzel 1.10

Fuzzel is a rofi alternative for Wayland. It's a versatile picker and launcher utility for desktop Linux. The last time I gave an update on Fuzzel was when 1.8 released which compared it to some altenatives. Let's look at some recent feature additions since then.

Tips for organizing Sway keybindings

Tips for organizing Sway keybindings

Here's how I set up my keybindings for the Sway window manager for Linux. Most of the tips here would apply to any keyboard, but let's get one detail out of the way first that's specific to 40% keyboards like the Corne. It doesn&

Self-hosting Matomo with a shared MySQL database

The official way to self-host Matomo Analytics is using it's own dedicated MySQL container along with a container for Matomo. I'm hosting it on a VPS with limited resources that's already running a MySQL database, so I wanted Matomo to connect to the MySQL