Fuzzel is a Wayland-native app launcher and fuzzy finder for Linux, inspired by Rofi and dmenu. The five-year-old Fuzzel project recently had a feature-packed 1.11 release. Here's a visual rundown of what's new. Instant filtering of huge lists 0:00 /0:08 1× Fuzzel was already blink-and-you'll-miss-it fast for
    • @beerclue
      6•3 months 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.

    • @markstosOP
      4•3 months 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
    4•3 months ago

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

  • jaxxed
    2•3 months ago

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

    • jaxxed
      5•3 months ago

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

      • @markstosOP
        1•3 months 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
          1•3 months 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.

          • @markstosOP
            1•3 months ago

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

          • @markstosOP
            1•3 months ago

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

            • jaxxed
              1•3 months 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.

              • @markstosOP
                1•3 months 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
                  2•3 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]English
    2•3 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
    1•3 months ago

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

    • @markstosOP
      1•3 months ago

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