Rofi Applets & Menus

A collection of custom applets and menus made using rofi and its dmenu emulation, inspired by rofi-menus.

Menus	Applets

Quick Links

• Installation
• Applets
• Menus
• Colorschemes
• Usage
  • Polybar
  • I3wm
  • Openbox

Dependencies

Applets/Menus	Package(s)	Note
Apps	termite, thunar, geany, firefox, lxmusic, xfce4-settings-manager	Or any other softwares you use most, just change this in ~/.config/rofi/scripts/apps.sh & also in menu.
Backlight	xbacklight, dunst	Adjust brightness & Notify.
Battery	acpi & xfce4-power-manager-settings	To get battery info & launch power manager.
MPD	mpd and mpc	mpc is a cli based client for mpd.
Network	nmcli, nmtui, bmon, nm-connection-editor & termite	Termite is required to open nmtui & bmon, or any other terminal you use, just change this in ~/.config/rofi/scripts/network.sh & also in menu.
Powermenu	systemctl, i3lock	By default systemctl is used for most actions, i3lock is used for locking, openbox --exit is used to log out. you might want to change these commands to match your setup.
Quicklinks	firefox (or chromium)	By default firefox is used to open links, you can use any other browser if you want, change accordingly.
Screenshot	scrot maim & viewnior	scrot to take shot & viewnior to open it after taking screenshot, you can change to whatever you use.
Time	-	-
Volume	amixer	To set the volume.

Fonts

• Comfortaa Used for normal text, (preview and source).
• Hurmit Nerd Font Mono Used for icons, (preview and source).

Warning: Do not change the @icon-font variable to another font, or you will end up messing with all applets/menus layout.

Installation

• First of all make sure you have rofi installed:

# Arch / Arch-based
pacman -S rofi

# Debian / Ubuntu
apt-get install rofi

# Fedora
dnf install rofi

• Then, clone this repository

# 1. Go in rofi's config folder
cd ~/.config/rofi

# 2. Clone this repo
git clone https://github.com/adi1090x/rofi.git

# 3. Make sure the scripts are executables
cd rofi && chmod +x scripts/*

# 4. Copy necessary files to the right location
cp -r bin scripts themes config.rasi ~/.config/rofi

# 5. Clean up rofi's config folder
cd .. && rm -r rofi

# 6. Call the scripts (from the scripts folder)
cd scripts
./backlight.sh

# (or from anywhere)
. ~/.config/rofi/scripts/backlight.sh

Applets

• Apps: Shortcuts for most used applications.
• Backlight: Display and adjust screen brightness.
• Battery: Display battery percentage & charging-discharging status with dynamic icons.
• MPD: Control the song play through mpd.
• Network: Display Online-Offline status with dynamic icons.
• Powermenu: A classic power penu, with Uptime.
• Quicklinks: Bookmarks shortcuts for most used sites.
• Screenshot: Take screenshots using scrot.
• Time: Display Time, Day & Date.
• Volume: Display and control volume with dynamic icons for mute status.

Powermenu	Time	Network	Battery

Volume	Backlight	Screenshot	MPD

Quicklinks	Apps

Menus

• Apps: Shortcuts for most used applications.
• Backlight: Display and adjust screen brightness.
• Battery: Display battery percentage & charging-discharging status with dynamic icons.
• MPD: Control the song play through mpd.
• Network: Display SSID, IP, Online-Offline status with dynamic icons.
• Powermenu: A classic power penu, shows Uptime, CPU & Memory usages.
• Quicklinks: Bookmarks shortcuts for most used sites.
• Screenshot: Take screenshots using scrot.
• Time: Display Time, Day, Month, Date.
• Volume: Display and control volume with dynamic icons for mute status.

Powermenu	Time	Network	Battery

Volume	Backlight	Screenshot	MPD

Quicklinks	Apps

Colorschemes

The files are stored in ~/.config/rofi/themes/colorschemes. To change the active colorscheme simply change the import line in ~/.config/rofi/themes/colors.rasi.

If you wish to change the colorscheme for only one specific applet/menu, you can add the line below after @import "colors.rasi" to the ~/.config/rofi/themes/.rasi or ~/.config/rofi/themes/menu/.rasi file.

@import "colorschemes/<colorscheme-name>.rasi"

Material Dark	Material Light

Adapta-Nokto	Adapta	Arc-Dark	Arc

adwaita	gruvbox	dark	armchair	darkpink

fresh	inside	party	sirin	minimo

Tips

Simple way to execute applets/menus

You can copy links from bin folder to your $PATH variable so that entering appsmenu in the terminal (or executing this command) will summon the appsmenu. you can do it by -

mkdir ~/.bin
cp -r ~/.config/rofi/bin/* ~/.bin
# Add folder to the $PATH variable
echo "PATH=$PATH:~/.bin" >> ~/.profile

Note: after doing this your $PATH variable won't be updated, so you will need to log out and then back in to be able to summon the menus this way.

Use With polybar

This is a simple example on how can you use these applets with polybar by adding modules and giving full paths of selected applet like ~/.config/rofi/scripts/backlight.sh or simply name if you followed the above method -

[module/backlight]
type = custom/text
content = 

content-background = ${color.bg}
content-foreground = ${color.cyan}

click-left = ~/.config/rofi/scripts/backlight.sh

## Or...

[module/backlight]
type = custom/text
content = 

content-background = ${color.bg}
content-foreground = ${color.green}

click-left = backlightmenu

Here's How it looks on polybar with different colorschemes for each applet...

Use With i3

You can call the scripts by giving their fulls paths like ~/.config/rofi/scripts/.sh or follow method above to call the menus in one word. Then add these lines to your i3 config file:

set $mod Mod4
set $Alt Mod1
bindsym $mod+m exec --no-startup-id mpdmenu
bindsym $mod+n exec --no-startup-id networkmenu
bindsym $mod+p exec --no-startup-id ~/.config/rofi/scripts/powermenu.sh
#etc

Use With Openbox

Same thing can be done with openbox by adding these lines to rc.xml file:

    <keybind key="W-m">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>~/.config/rofi/scripts/mpd.sh</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>
    <!-- Or -->
    <keybind key="W-m">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>mpdmenu</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>
    <!-- etc -->

Support Me

Bottom Line

• PR's, Issues, Contributions are welcome.
• Have Fun!