hyprland-wiki/pages/Useful Utilities/App-Launchers.md

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## Wofi

Wofi is a GTK-based customizable launcher for wayland.
[SourceHut](https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wofi).

## Rofi (Wayland fork)

Rofi, but with Wayland support. [GitHub](https://github.com/lbonn/rofi).

## bemenu

bemenu is a Wayland-native replacement for dmenu.
[GitHub](https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu).

## fuzzel

Fuzzel is an application launcher for wlroots based Wayland compositors, similar
to rofi's `drun` mode. [Codeberg](https://codeberg.org/dnkl/fuzzel)

## tofi

tofi is an extremely fast and simple yet highly customizable dmenu / rofi
replacement for wlroots-based Wayland compositors. When configured correctly,
tofi can get on screen within a single frame.
[Github](https://github.com/philj56/tofi)

For a more comprehensive list of launchers, check
[awesome-hyprland](https://github.com/hyprland-community/awesome-hyprland#runners-menus-and-application-launchers).

## Emacs

If you are already running an emacs server you can use Emacs.

For the config you can check out [DistroTube's Configuring Emacs](https://gitlab.com/dwt1/configuring-emacs/-/blob/main/07-the-final-touches/scripts/app-launchers.el?ref_type=heads) or [Sebastian Wae's `app-launcher`](https://github.com/SebastienWae/app-launcher) repositories.

## Anyrun

Anyrun is a wayland native krunner-like runner, made with customizability in
mind. It is modular and extensible through plugins. It can be used as an app launcher with its Applications Plugin.
[GitHub](https://github.com/Kirottu/anyrun)

## Walker

Walker is an extensible wayland-native runner with various built-in modules (applications, runner, hyprland windows, websearch [as of 2024-03-15]). It can be run as a service for faster startups.
[GitHub](https://github.com/abenz1267/walker)