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Looking for a good app launcher for Linux. Currently looking for something for Arch and I see there's a lot of options liks rofi and wofi. What are your favourite app launchers and why?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Plasma has such a good tiling window manager now as well, with one of the most low resource draw frameworks powering it. But it isn't cool and hip I guess!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

how did you get tiling working in plasma? bismuth broke after plasma 6 the other ones are also really bad

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Tiling is built into plasma after late versions of 5. You can hit super+T to change default layout, shift+drag window to snap to layout, and set custom keybinds for keybord navigation. There might be default settings but I set mine to mimic i3 of the bat so I couldnt tell you what they are…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

that's not even close to being as good as auto tiling in wm's

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

its really bad compared to real tiling

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Plasma ships with a tiling wm? I thought it was done using extensions like bismuth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

no, it doesn't

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

They added native tiling a while back! I am running debian 12 with plasma 5.27 and it is super comfortable.