how do i change the style and launcher used in rofi?

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how do i change the style and launcher used in rofi? #82

Closed Jackal-boop closed 1 year ago

Jackal-boop commented 2 years ago

im new to linux in general and rofi was pre installed with an i3 config im using. i installed your themes and such but after fiddling around in the config and searching forums and man pages i cant figure out how to change the launcher and theme.

NoaVelasco commented 2 years ago

I have been struggling with this for a while too . Sometimes I think the world forgets that newcomers to Linux (hi! 🙋‍♂️) don't know a lot of things. Maybe I'm wrong, but I managed the quest by touching some .ravi files and with a keybinding in i3: bindsym $SHORTCUT exec /home/USERNAME/.config/rofi/launchers/colorful/launcher.sh I hope it helps.

adi1090x commented 1 year ago

Instructions on readme file.

jpmorris commented 1 year ago

Yes it's not totally clear. For the newbies rofi is not a daemon that is configured and changes picked up immediately (like polybar --reload), it doesn't need a manual config refresh (like i3wm), rofi just runs and exits once you make a selection. So this runs each time. The docs should have a top-level summary because, by my count, at least 3 people didn't know this: 1) edit launcher 2) edit colors 3) actually RUN the launcher.sh in the launcher folder to test 4) integrate with your UI of choice

DeepReef11 commented 2 months ago

I'd say I'm intermediate to linux (but totally new to rofi) and I did not understand at all that launcher.sh is what was supposed to be called to try it.

Also, there's a typo in a rasi file (run,drun instead of run-drun).