Other people have given great reasons, but I will also mention that as someone who lives inside the terminal it’s often faster and easier to open it right there rather than getting a GUI one going. I do still use one for things that are easier to do with a graphical file manager though, no problem having both
That’s because it works very well, and the main developer is super active (I’ve contributed and made some plugins so have interacted with them a fair bit)
I mainly use it inside neovim actually, in place of the built in file manager or a file tree. Also use it if I want to quickly see the image files in a directory (it shows the images in the terminal), or rename a bunch of files. And then rarely for other file related activities as it makes exploring a directory very smooth
Fair play with taking the time to learn nix, currently tinkering with it and this stuff is no joke. Wish it wasn’t a DSL
Thanks hope you like it.
It parses files from different launchers like Steam or Bottles preaent on your system, and when the game is selected, it will spawn the command for launching the game directly via e.g. a steam command to launch that specific game ID. It doesn’t interact with desktop shortcuts in any way if that’s what you mean, though that is how it started
To be completely honest, I probably won’t use it again, at least for a while. While it’s nice to work with most of the time, I ran into a lot of weird niche issues that I had to either work around or come up with some hack to achieve the same effect, which was unfortunate. As a random example, trying to scroll to the top of the document every time a state was changed would not trigger the scroll consistently, making it pretty useless.
For a site like this, it would probably have been easier to just use a JS framework, or finally go and learn htmx
Definitely not, Civ 5 and Skyrim are still my highest play times and they’re not there. Not to mention many of those games I’ve played only a handful of hours
Not sure how Steam orders the games actually but yes, amazing game and definitely in my top 5 (with mods of course)
Ty 🙏 I find I usually know what game I actually want to play, and just typing in that name to filter for it lets me mostly ignore other games and not feel bad for avoiding them lol
Np hope you get as much use out of it as I do
Awesome, hope you like it (and it works lol). It’s easy to install on Arch as I created an AUR package but a bit more involved for other distros, as you’ll need to clone the repo and use just to install. I should probably look into releases with the plugin file already compiled…
Yeah good idea, might cross post to !linux_gaming@lemmy.world
Link should be set on the post now
Edit: I understand now - can’t have the image AND a link - moved the link to the body of the post to keep the image
No sorry - looks like the link didn’t get set. It’s at https://github.com/Rolv-Apneseth/rofi-games
I have 2 plugins for rofi on Linux and it’s true, no releases - best I can do for you is tags, take it or leave it
It was, in fact, just roasting itself
That’s a penis??
Does that make the entire window have a lower opacity i.e. the text too? If so, do you find it distracting?
To be fair this is a terminal file manager… only a certain kind of person will be interested in the first place, and those people are likely to be more inclined to leave a star on GitHub.
Personally I believe the stars were achieved naturally but of course there’s no way to know and it never hurts to be skeptical.