dmenu VS kupfer

For dmenu modifications go to http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/ and read about patching, or use some patched versions from github, like Luke Smiths https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/dmenu. Source: 5 months ago

Some features are nice to have. Give dmenu [0] a try, pipe it into other CLI utils and see how useful it can be to have drop-downs sometimes. [0] https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

This is a wonderful project! I've been thinking a lot about making such a unified desktop stack for a while now; web technology has matured to the point where I think it's feasible to build a complete environment a la Smalltalk/Symbolics but with a modern feature set. Obviously this has deficiencies but like it or not the web _is_ computing for the vast majority of people and exploring/pushing its limits of user... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

I love simplicity of dmenu and it's quite powerful with some scripts. Source: about 1 year ago

Everything is a fast file search tool for windows. OP can use dmrun by suckless or plocate (cli) . I don't know if there is any comparable gui available. Source: about 1 year ago

Kupfer (gnome) - https://kupferlauncher.github.io Quicksilver (macos): https://qsapp.com/ I still find myself using these and enjoy the 'wei wu wei' flow of them: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d4LkTstvUL4 (skip to 5 or 11 minutes in). - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

Haven't tried it yet, but there's something interesting about this ui interaction if paired with a quazimodal quick-find app like kupfer - https://kupferlauncher.github.io/ (i.e. An app inspired by quicksilver). Source: over 2 years ago