Kickoff is heavily inspired by rofi, but not without changes made. Like many programs, kickoff was born from an itch that no existing program seemed to relieve and my desire to learn a lower level programming language.
Install
Arch Linux
Use your favourite AUR manager, i.e. blinky:
Cargo
How does it search
All programs found in $PATH are included in the search results. This can include your own additions to $PATH as long as they are done before you launch kickoff or the program that launches kickoff (i.e. your window manager)
This list is then combined with your previous searches and sorted by amount of usage and if it fits the search query.
Features
- Wayland native (only wlroots based compositors though)
- Fuzzy search
- Fast and snappy
- Remembers often used applications
- Argument support for launched programs
- Paste support
- Build list from stdin
Configuration
A default configuration will be placed at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/kickoff/config.toml
or can be found here.
Roadmap
- Include aliases in search results
- Testing and documentation