Let's Linux #016: rofi setup

the files used in this video can be found on github:

This is the first in a series of 3 about how to setup rofi.

In this first video i show what rofi is, how to install it and how to configure it.

I also take a look at rofis new theme engine.

### video info:

color scheme: gruvbox, by morhertz
terminal font: Inconsolata
terminal emulator: URxvt
filemanager: thunar
icon theme: ePapirus
gtk theme: numix (solarized dark)
wallpaper: polygon-mountain



## videos

## useful commands

Rofi has a separate man page for the themes:
man rofi-theme

The preinstalled themes are located at this
location:
/usr/share/rofi/themes/

It also searched for themes in the local directory with this path:
~/.config/rofi

To change ownership of a file use the chown command:
chown NEWOWNER FILE(s)

## links

get rofi from your package manager or from github:

Gruvbox color theme by morhertz (Pavel Pertsev)

Solarized color theme by Ethan Schoonover

And can be found on github:

[ChaiBronz]

You probably already know this by now (I'm commenting on a 4 year old video), but you can add the following command to drun mode so that those extra descriptions don't show up next to the app name. I use this in my rofi config with drun in a dmenu theme and works great:

drun-display-format: "{name}";

I think you could also add to the rofi command like this:

rofi -show drun -modi drun -drun-display-format {name}

[cristianalbacete]

You got Grim Fandango installed. I like you.

[dschledermann]

Why did you use sudo when copying in the first place?

[dachd]

You can have dmenu run in box in the middle of your screen. I did that before I switched to rofi

[haroldfarfanreto]

Good video, man. You save my ass many times. Happy new year!!

[darlanmartinsduarte]

As always a great video. Just for curiosity, what is the name of the font you using in lolban? Thanks!

[beat]

that second field that you mention in the ls -l output is not the creator of the file but the group owning the file. you should use
*chown bud:bud bmenu.rasi*
so the group ownership is also transfered to the bud group.

also: HOW it looks or WHAT it looks LIKE. -HOW it looks LIKE-

[Reevos]

There's a theme picker in rofi if you just type theme in the rofi prompt