change default rofi?

[Jerry3904]

I'm thinking of changing the rofi theme and layout for the next (point?) release. My current preference is to combine drun (menu), window and calc. Without any modified colors etc., this is my working model. I want to get a link to the Help file in the bottom panel if at all possible.

Thoughts? Ideas?

[siamhie]

I'm thinking of changing the rofi theme and layout for the next (point?) release. My current preference is to combine drun (menu), window and calc. Without any modified colors etc., this is my working model. I want to get a link to the Help file in the bottom panel if at all possible.

Thoughts? Ideas?

That looks nice. I'm using an Ark-Dark theme with the run command as well.

rofi.png

[Jerry3904]

For very different look I am also attracted to and currently using sidebar.rasi, here with addy's minima tint2:

[Melber]

I quite like the current rofi setup with only drun. Not sure I have a use case for the window or calc tabs, but maybe that's just me.

Sidebar layout is interesting. Intended as an alternative or replacement for xfce app launcher?

Default rofi with neutral colouring is a good idea. A help button would be useful for new users. If buttons are possible, I'd vote for a button to automatically start rofi-theme-selector.

[Jerry3904]

I have it now just drun and filebrowser, two that I would use a lot. Filebrowser is super fast.

I've been looking through documentation on buttons and such, not having luck so far.

[Melber]

@Jerry3904
Re: help tab - in case you haven't got this far already, this seems to work

edit modi line in config.rasi to

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modi: "drun, help:~/.config/rofi/help";

and save this as an executable file named help in ~/.config/rofi
(The paths can be changed to someplace else if you don't want to put stuff in .config/rofi)

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#!/bin/bash

if [ x"$@" = x"mxfb-help" ];
then
killall rofi
sleep 0.25
roxterm -e "mxfb-help"
kill roxterm
fi

if [ x"$@" = x"theme-selector" ];
then
killall rofi
sleep 0.25
roxterm -e "rofi-theme-selector"
kill roxterm
fi

echo "mxfb-help"
echo "theme-selector"

rofi-help-tab.png

[Jerry3904]

Very cool, will give it a whirl! Thanks.

[Jerry3904]

Works well! In the long run I will probably restrict the help to rofi (including your new app), add a bit of text and provide some links.

[kobaian]

This is mine "MX-comfort"-like theme based on sidetab-adapta theme, that was previously based on sidetab theme by deadguy.
The buttons are: drun | windows | run with some symbols coming from the awesome-font from the MX-repository.
I have improved colors to match the MX-comfort-dark style and the default panel.

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/*
 * mx-comfort theme,
 * based on sidetab-adapta theme,
 * that was based on sidetab theme by deadguy.
 *
 * This theme has been dedicated to the public domain.
 *
 */

configuration {
        show-icons:   true;
        sidebar-mode: true;
}

* {
        background-color: transparent;
        text-color:                 #ffffff;

        accent-color:               #0F56D9;
        accent2-color:              #0F56D9;
        hover-color:                #29353B;
        urgent-color:               #ff5252;
        window-color:               #ffffff;

        selected-normal-foreground: @window-color;
        normal-foreground:          @text-color;
        selected-normal-background: @hover-color;
        normal-background:          @background-color;

        selected-urgent-foreground: @background-color;
        urgent-foreground:          @text-color;
        selected-urgent-background: @urgent-color;
        urgent-background:          @background-color;

        selected-active-foreground: @window-color;
        active-foreground:          @text-color;
        selected-active-background: @hover-color;
        active-background:          @accent-color;
}

#window {
		background-color:           #1D2324EE;
		margin: 0px 0px 0px;
        anchor:   south west;
        location: south west;
        width:    25%;
        height:   60%;
}

#mainbox {
        children: [ entry, listview, mode-switcher ];
}

entry {
        expand: false;
        margin: 8px;
}

element {
        padding: 8px;
}

element normal.normal {
        background-color: @normal-background;
        text-color:       @normal-foreground;
}

element normal.urgent {
        background-color: @urgent-background;
        text-color:       @urgent-foreground;
}

element normal.active {
        background-color: @active-background;
        text-color:       @active-foreground;
}

element selected.normal {
        background-color: @selected-normal-background;
        text-color:       @selected-normal-foreground;
        border:           0 4px solid 0 0;
        border-color:     @accent2-color;
}

element selected.urgent {
        background-color: @selected-urgent-background;
        text-color:       @selected-urgent-foreground;
}

element selected.active {
        background-color: @selected-active-background;
        text-color:       @selected-active-foreground;
}

element alternate.normal {
        background-color: @normal-background;
        text-color:       @normal-foreground;
}

element alternate.urgent {
        background-color: @urgent-background;
        text-color:       @urgent-foreground;
}

element alternate.active {
        background-color: @active-background;
        text-color:       @active-foreground;
}

button {
        padding: 6px;
        text-color:       #8FBCBB;
}

button selected {
        background-color: @hover-color;
        text-color:       @selected-normal-foreground;
        border:           4px solid 0 0 0;
        border-color:     @accent2-color;
}

/* vim: ft=css

[Jerry3904]

That looks great! Nice to see the theme code, thanks.