TL;DR: Wofi is unmaintained
Wofi is a launcher/menu for wlroots based compositors.
The description on the sourcehut says that it’s not actively maintained. Looking at the commits confirms this: The most recent commit was 4 months ago, and the 10th most recent 10 months ago. The creator also confirms this again in a reddit comment. (libreddit link)
Yet in most places I look (sway wiki 1, sway wiki 2*, hyprland wiki**, gentoo wiki, arch wiki sway, arch wiki hyprland, awesome hyprland**) it’s at least listed somewhere, often near or at the top, with no mention of the maintenance status. I also searched for comments on lemmy containing wofi and only one of them mentioned that it’s unmaintained, and that under a post that’s seemingly deleted.
*edited by me just now
**filing an issue (or maybe pr) tomorrow when I’m less tired
I guess it still works perfectly fine, and I’m ok with using unmaintained software (Android 9), but I’m sure there are people who would like to know that.
While I’m here, I’d like to highlight that there is an active rofi fork that supports wayland with full functionality, which is a great alternative to wofi.
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Yeah, using an unmaintained launcher and a mobile os that stopped getting security patches are not the same thing.
I put that there to make clear that I don’t care at all if software I use (important or not) isn’t maintained.
I’ve just been using fzf with a floating terminal window, and it’s been great. I don’t understand the need for rofi/wofi/dmenu.
Is there a specific setup for this? I’ve not used fzf
Here is an example: https://erfur.github.io/2021/11/20/fzf_as_dmenu.html
probably bc wofi may be in more repos n package managers afaik, seems like a popularity issue for rofi-wayland more than a more conscious decision to not recommend it
Yeah, Rofi-wayland doesn’t work as well as it should. Maybe it works if you are using the default config or something similar but for me it is supposed to show at the top of the screen, dmenu-style, but it instead shows under my bar rather than over it, as it should. Bemenu, with j4-dmenu-desktop work just as well for me on Wayland, as rofi did on Xorg.
