Other app launcher with sway

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philou_83

Hi all. new on this forum. :-). I've installed sway these last days on my personal PC (not my first experience with FreeBSD). everything was OK till I tried to installed some app launchers (like wofi, rofi, ...) for a better experience and effectiveness. none worked well. I restored dmenu (it was working initially) but now some apps (eg librewolf) do not launch even by command line 'librewolf --browser' (err: org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins' does not contain a key name 'antialisaing'). I thought about some mismatch with gnome apps I removed. but without results. some ideas that could help me. :-).
 
Thank you very much NapoleonWilson. I've installed tofi as suggested (following link to GitHub). it looks nice and suitable for me. but not fully solved unfortunatly. some apps are launching (eg. pcmanfm, lxappearance, spyder, maxima, avogadro...) and other not (librewolf (tried remove and re-install), swaysettings, Desktop Preferences, video, ...). in fact, got err Desktop manager is not active when trying to launch Desktop Preferences.
 
hi mate

did you install tofi using the freebsd package

Code: 
sudo pkg install tofi

i have never had any issue with tofi not launching applications
even applications in a linux or freebsd jail
 
exact with pkg. I fear some mismatch with gnome apps I installed before as gnome-tweaks (tried to remove all gnome-apps). for example I got err "org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings does not contain a key name 'antialiasing', glib assertion" when trying to launch "librewolf" by CLI (or "librewolf --safe-mode"). I think that not proper to tofi. finally works with Iridium (sorry librewolf). it seems to be slightly intrusive from forums. so could be fine for me. I will try now to implement your custom tofi.config. Thank you very much for advices. :-).
 
Had to redo my FreeBSD install. I should have made some wrong modifications in the system files at a certain time. opportunity to learn more and again on CLI and Handbooks. :-). it's fine now. very happy with FreeBSD philosophy that allows to simply and cleanly install and run apps without superfluous. and I'm preferring even now to run apps by CLI instead GUI (when usable). I'm thinking also to make a post-install script to shorten possible re-install of FreeBSD and current configuration (sway, appearances, apps, ...) in case of PC outage (should replace HDD by SSD at a time).
 
keep all your dotfiles in a git repository
so you dont lose your settings and you can easily clone the repo

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freebsd dotfiles for macbook air. Contribute to NapoleonWils0n/freebsd-dotfiles development by creating an account on GitHub.
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freebsd root dot files for mac air. Contribute to NapoleonWils0n/freebsd-root development by creating an account on GitHub.
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