 Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel today. I'm going to be talking a little bit about how Rofi has Changed the way I use Linux Now a couple things before we get started one. I want to give credit to hex DSL Who got me started? Kind of pointing me towards looking at Rofi for other things other than just launching apps One of his videos is quite awesome where he goes through all of his Sx hkd bindings and one of several of those are have to do with Rofi and that's where I kind of get started Second I'm aware a hundred percent that everything I do with Rofi can be done with the menu I Don't care. I've never cared for the menu. I think one of the reasons why is because it's hard or harder to theme Whereas Rofi is very easy to think not only to create your own theme, but also that you can find tons and tons of themes Online and just put them in a folder and you can use them Whereas you have to patch DWM and all the you know X resources and all that kind of stuff nonsense with DWM. It's just not you know is easy to use so I like Rofi again You just you know launch Rofi You know or I'm gonna show you several things that I've set up through Rofi plugins that you know you can do with DWM, but it's not as easy Now Some people if you don't use with tiling window managers or even just floating window managers If you use a full desktop environment, most people just have a menu I mean if you're using KDE or GNOME or whatever you have a menu and that's what you use if you're Probably the thing that comes closest in a regular desktop environment is GNOME's ability just hit the super key And you get a search search launcher thing Which is cool. I mean if you're using GNOME that's pretty awesome. It works But if you're using a window manager of any sort you need some kind of app launcher And that's where Rofi comes in. This is what Rofi looks like and if you just want to you know start up a program You just You know say I want to start nitrogen or whatever and that's what you do It's very simple very easy to install You can either compile it from source Or you can install it through whatever Repository your destroy uses like I think it's through it. You can Use app or you can use It's definitely in the arch repository So It's easily installed. It's easy to customize. So if you wanted to change themes You can go through and change things like this. These are all pre-installed by Arco But You know, it's just it's really cool and then you just hit ctrl a and that's you know your new theme I mean this one or whatever and if you're used to D-menu there's one here See if I can find it Yeah, D-menu if you look up there at the top now it looks like D-menu and you're still using Rofi So that's as easy as that's how easy it is to switch themes And if you have if you need if you want a theme and you found like say you can either build one yourself By just creating a dot rasi file Or You can download one from the internet and put it in the appropriate folder and it's very easy So I guess the question is how did it change that the way using this because I've been using Rofi for ages Before I discovered that they even had plugins and it was you know, it was just it was okay I mean it was just because I liked it better than D-menu. It's what I used But then I watched the hexi hex DSL video and learned about this this is a This is clip menu D and it's a clip menu history demon and it just has all of the My history From a clipboard and it's just one of the things I do Very often is take the copy text from one place and put it in the other I mean that's something that everybody does I seem to do it more than more because I build spread spreadsheets and stuff for Different things and it's so nice to be able to copy and paste everything You want off from one page and then move over and be able to select these things You know and put it in the spreadsheet. It's just completely changed the way I've used I mean almost with the way I use Linux So there's that and this was pretty hard to set up Mostly because of being a new but I didn't know how to cite environment variables and all that stuff So I had to learn how to do that, but once I did it was good It also got me into creating my own auto start script for both i3 and DWM Which I hadn't done before and that was fun to learn one of the things I like about Linux is that it always makes me learn some new things So that's the clipboard menu now One of the other things that I use a lot is this one here now because I Have 19 workspaces Sometimes things are open. I don't realize What is open, you know, like I had no idea I even had a terminal on workspace one, but apparently I do Oh, it's in it's in a tab. That's the reason why So being able to have that key binding and have all my programs listed it's kind of cool It's basically alt tab is basically what it is. But because I'm on i3 alt tab isn't what it is on like a window manager And then I also have Superb Keep on binded to a Emojis here, so if I wanted to use emojis they you know, I can just search for happy and You know, if you search for happy interestingly enough, you don't get you know, like a happy face So maybe smile Yeah, okay So I say I want that and then now that's in my clipboard then I can go go to clipboard and see you can actually see it's actually here in my clipboard and That's I mean, I don't use emojis that often I'm Much getting much closer to 40 years old that I am 30 years old so emojis really aren't my thing but I use them more now that I have this Than I did before because they're so easy to get to especially is easy It's nice to have like on Facebook because Facebook doesn't have a search You know mechanism in their rope in their emoji selector So you have to scroll through and know what categories what emojis are in and it's kind of paying the butt But this way I can just search for something add it to the clipboard and then paste it right into the text field or whatever And it's it's there. It's awesome Now here's one that I don't use very often Don't remember control sift she know You know, maybe Alt C. Yeah, there it is Alt C as you can tell like that. I don't use it very often. I don't I'm fairly good at math, so I don't necessarily need a calculator on time, but I have this installed And you know, it is easy to be on 12 Times 12 and it gives you the answer, you know, that's something you don't know I mean, it's there if I ever needed it and it's great because I don't have to go through and search for I'm sure No, I guess I don't have an actual calculator install. I thought K calc. Yeah, K calc. I so I have KDE is a as a Alternative I3 and I guess I could launch that but I never have I just know If I needed to do something I just do that So one of the things I want to do that haven't been able to do yet It's two-fold. I want to get bit warden Rofi working, but you haven't been able to do yet and I want to get The web search that sh1 working that will allow me to search the web which is Great because a lot of things so if you use Mac, there's an app called Albert I think Maybe it's Alfred. I can't remember but it's basically it's basically a search Thing that allows you to do a bunch things spotlight also allows you to do it on Mac and Basically if I could get this one this one plug into work, excuse me. Sorry about that That allowed me to do that through Rofi One of the great things about Rofi is it's so extensible. There's all these plugins That you can use I mean a lot of them is like you wouldn't want to use like I mean I don't know why you'd want to control and PD through it, but you could Same thing for like a UI for to do does is John, you know what that is but it sounds interesting and I'm not sure what does back end what for the book search. What is that? That looks cool Especially this search search Search the web with Rofi by selecting Book search search your book collection. That's really all they information they give you. Okay So as you can see a lot of these aren't very well documented, but it does allow you to Go through and do a ton of different things with Rofi and I'm really looking forward to going through and being able to you know Do more with it because it really has changed the way it Saved me so much time. It's especially the clipboard thing. I just can't get over how much a clipboard manager Actually is has helped me. I guess I guess I should be giving some credit to clip menu D But because you know Rofi's what lets me get to there It's just completely changed the way I do things because a lot most of the time I'd have to copy something and then go paste it before I can do it Now I can copy multiple things and still have it in my history, which is great It's just completely changed things. 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