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tofi(1) General Commands Manual tofi(1)

NAME

tofi - Tiny dynamic menu for Wayland, inspired by rofi(1) and dmenu(1).

SYNOPSIS

tofi [options...]

tofi-run [options...]

tofi-drun [options...]

DESCRIPTION

tofi is a tiny dynamic menu for Wayland compositors supporting the layer-shell protocol. It reads newline-separated items from stdin, and displays a graphical selection menu. When a selection is made, it is printed to stdout.

When invoked via the name tofi-run, tofi will not accept items on stdin, instead presenting a list of executables in the user's $PATH.

When invoked via the name tofi-drun, tofi will not accept items on stdin, and will generate a list of applications from desktop files as described in the Desktop Entry Specification.

OPTIONS

-h, --help

Print help and exit.

-c, --config <path>

Specify path to custom config file.

All config file options described in tofi(5) are also accepted, in the form --key=value.

KEYS

<Up> | <Left> | <Ctrl>-k

Move the selection back one entry.

<Down> | <Right> | <Ctrl>-j | <Tab>

Move the selection forward one entry.

<Ctrl>-u

Delete line.

<Ctrl>-w | <Ctrl>-<Backspace>

Delete word.

<Enter>

Confirm the current selection and quit.

<Escape>

Quit without making a selection.

FILES

/etc/xdg/tofi/config

Example configuration file.

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/tofi/config

The default configuration file location.

$XDG_CACHE_HOME/tofi-compgen

Cached list of executables under $PATH, regenerated as necessary.

$XDG_CACHE_HOME/tofi-drun

Cached list of desktop applications, regenerated as necessary.

$XDG_STATE_HOME/tofi-history

Numeric count of commands selected in tofi-run, to enable sorting results by run count.

$XDG_STATE_HOME/tofi-drun-history

Numeric count of commands selected in tofi-drun, to enable sorting results by run count.

AUTHORS

Philip Jones <philj56@gmail.com>

SEE ALSO

tofi(5), dmenu(1) rofi(1)

2022-11-29