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[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 11 points 4 days ago

How does its startup time compare to other launchers (rofi or tofi for example)

[-] beerclue@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

I never actually measured it, but I switched to fuzzel from wofi, and I can't tell the difference in reaction time. To me it feels instant.

[-] markstos@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

I’ve tested them all and they all launch fairly immediately.

I discuss some of the other feature differences here:

https://mark.stosberg.com/rofi-alternatives-for-wayland/

I think for most people, Fuzzel will be the best choice, but compeitors offer unique features like Rofi-compatibility, HTML formatting support or the most important one: being written in Rust.

[-] daddyjones@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

I'm a huge fan of fuzzel - can't compliment it enough.

[-] gramgan@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

Love fuzzel—it’s pretty performant, even with a few thousand options to pick from.

[-] jaxxed@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Fuzzel is great. I only wish it had a pinentry option.

[-] jaxxed@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

I should have read the article first -- passphrases and pinentry are here

[-] markstos@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

That’s right! We are just waiting for someone to focus a pinentry/fuzzel script now. All the necessary features are there it seems.

[-] jaxxed@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The script is there in the post, but I haven't tried it yet. It would be nice if fuzzel had a message option, like rofi, so that key information could be displayed in the passphrases request; that s is what pinentry-rofi uses.

[-] markstos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

There is a newish “placeholder text” option. It could be displayed there and disappear when typing starts.

[-] markstos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yes. The message could be added to the prompt but it wouldn’t look the best.

[-] jaxxed@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

It might be nice to have a way of giving more context, which is what the message option was good for in rofi. Not knocking it though, I am a happy fuzzel user.

[-] markstos@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

You could add a feature request in the Fuzzel bug tracker. A screenshot of how it is used in Fuzzel could be helpful there.

[-] jaxxed@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Let me try for a pinentry script over the weekend first, to see how the placeholder looks.

[-] degen@midwest.social 2 points 4 days ago

I'm still on bemenu since I used dmenu with dwm on X. I should probably check the others out.

[-] Stiltonfondu@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago

noice! I just switched to using Fuzzel yesterday.

[-] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

It looks like I have a great place to land if fzf ever starts to make my life difficult. Thank you!

[-] markstos@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

fzf has some unique features of its own, like multi-select. Maybe one day Fuzzel will add that.

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