Linux® From Scratch - Quality of Life (System V Edition) - Version #7844

Chapter 10. Launchers

Rofi-1.7.8

Introduction to Rofi

Rofi provides an application launcher for the X Window System. It can launch applications found in $PATH, such as firefox. It can also launch applications from .desktop files in /usr/share/applications, ~/.local/share/applications, and other paths, such as /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop. This specific edition of Rofi does not support Wayland compositors.

Rofi Dependencies

Required

gdk-pixbuf, GLib2, libxcb, libxkbcommon, Pango (with Cairo), startup-notification, and XCB Utilities

Recommended

hicolor-icon-theme

Optional

XCBImdkit

Installation of Rofi

Install Rofi by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson setup --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release .. &&
ninja

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

Contents

Installed Programs: rofi, rofi-sensible-terminal, and rofi-theme-selector
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: /usr/include/rofi and /usr/share/rofi/themes

Short Descriptions

rofi

is an X11 application laucher

rofi-sensible-terminal

invokes the default terminal

rofi-theme-selector

changes the theme used for rofi's UI