TRtrashcat·Dec 24, 2019
I use Rofi.
https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
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Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
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Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
7 sourcesSounds kind of manual compared to what I do now which is wrap calibredb in a script and narrow if needed via rofi.
https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
Presumably would be about as easy to do in elisp.
A call to calibredb in a library of thousands of books on ssd is only 1/3 -> 1/2 a second
In Major Mode for Reading EPUBs in EmacsA more direct alternative to Alfred on linux is Albert [1]. There's also Rofi [2], Ulauncher[3], and probably many more launchers available.
On Windows Keypirinha[4] is pretty good. There's also Wox[5].
I don't think any of the alternatives are as well fleshed out as Alfred is but there are a lot of 'good enough' if you're using a different OS. Any launcher is better than the default search on windows 10, for example.
[1] https://github.com/albertlauncher/albert
[2] https://github.com/DaveDavenport/rofi
[3] https://ulauncher.io
[4] http://keypirinha.com
[5] http://www.wox.one
In Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?I'd suggest rofi[1] rather than albert, runs like a charm.
[1] https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
In From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to loveThis sound like a use for Rofi[0] and some kind of Todo.txt code that appends to a file
[0]: https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
In Todo.txt: Future-proof task tracking in a file you controlI don't understand it either. I have mapped caps lock to some command launcher/window switcher, which spares me pressing two keys.. Esc is even on the same side as the keyboard..
Rofi: https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
In Uncap - Map Caps Lock to Escape on Windows, Linux, and macOSrofi (https://github.com/davatorium/rofi). I use it as my primary window switcher.
In Ask HN: What are your favorite utility desktop apps?