Suckless and Rofi
st
The suckless terminal. It’s ideally small to bake in a nerd font, and remove
non UTF-8 mode, and the alt code Latin code page. On a Chromebook this is
important as the Crostini terminal doesn’t have nerd font abilities. I then
launch nvim inside st to obtain a local and an ssh -X remote fonted
edit experience. Nice.
rofi
A nice hot keyed quick launch selector. After a bit of setup lots can be
placed for access by rofi -show combi, the mix together mode. I also added
a plugin template called a as C makes a.out for adding in more modes.
There is a dmenu compatibility mode for using in scripts if you prefer
it over dmenu. I have it set up on \r in nvim as I usually have the
editor open. It works over an ssh -X connection too.
dwm, slstatus and dmenu
A simple efficient desktop window manager and it’s status bar. Faster on
simpler hardware. Has it’s uses. So dmenu is like a mini rofi custom in
dwm. They do require a little knowledge of C to customize.
Checkout suckless and rofi if you like.