I am happy user of i3 for some time now. About a year ago, I changed my app launcher from dmenu to xlunch and it’s been pretty fine experience. So let me share this with you.
There is no Fedora package for xlunch yet and I am too lazy to create one. Volunteers! But the installation is like:
git clone https://github.com/Tomas-M/xlunch
cd xlunch
sudo dnf install imlib2-devel libX11-devel
make
I don’t even bother to install it and keep this in the workspace directory, I assume the installation would go something like:
make install DESTDIR=/usr/local
The migration was pretty easy - in the .i3/autostart file I deleted
dmenu_path and added new line that ensures generation of entries after each
start. It takes a while because the script converts many SVG icons to raster
images, but it’s no big deal for me. There is also a faster script available in
the git repo that does not generate such nice icons but I like to have the
fancy ones:
bash /home/lzap/work/xlunch/extra/genentries -p /home/lzap/.local/share/icons > /home/lzap/.config/xlunch/entries.dsv 2>/dev/null &
And that’s all, assuming you have this configuration:
bindsym $mod+space exec /home/lzap/work/xlunch/xlunch -i /home/lzap/.config/xlunch/entries.dsv -f RobotoCondensed-Regular.ttf/10 -G
In my case that’s WIN key with SPACE combination what brings the thing. Have fun.