Alternatives to centerpiece
A fast, minimal and plugin-extendable omnibox launcher for Wayland, written in Rust. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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centerpiece
A fast, minimal and plugin-extendable omnibox launcher for Wayland, written in Rust.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as centerpiece.
Anyrun
A Wayland-native runner in the style of KRunner, built around plugins and customization.
Anyrun is a Wayland-native, KRunner-style runner with plugins and a Nix flake, but it is not open source and Nvidia users may need a renderer workaround.
Walker
A customizable GTK4 application launcher for Linux that also runs commands and does calculations.
Walker is a GTK4 Linux launcher that also runs commands and calculations from one prompt, with many options to configure, and it is not open source.
Vicinae
A native, extensible keyboard-driven launcher for Linux desktops, inspired by Raycast.
Vicinae brings a Raycast-style extensible launcher to Linux as a native app, but it is not open source and is still changing quickly.
Onagre
A general-purpose application launcher for X11 and Wayland, built on pop-launcher and iced.
Onagre works on both X11 and Wayland and extends through pop-launcher plugins, but it requires pop-launcher to be installed.
Ulauncher
Fast, extensible application launcher built for Linux desktops.
Ulauncher offers a large community extension ecosystem on Linux desktops, though it lacks the Nix flake, Home Manager module and Git repository indexing.
rofi
A keyboard-driven window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement for Linux desktops.
rofi combines a launcher, window switcher and dmenu replacement with text-file theming, under the MIT license, for Linux and Unix-like desktops.
fuzzel
An application launcher and fuzzy finder for Wayland compositors, inspired by rofi and dmenu.
fuzzel is a small C Wayland launcher that also works as a dmenu-style picker, without a plugin system or omnibox search of other item types.
wofi
A GTK-based launcher and menu program for wlroots Wayland compositors such as Sway.
wofi is a GTK-styled launcher and dmenu replacement for wlroots compositors, but it is not actively maintained and has no plugin system.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Kickoff
A minimalistic fuzzy program launcher for wlroots-based Wayland compositors, written in Rust.
tofi
A tiny, fast dmenu and rofi replacement for wlroots-based Wayland compositors.
Hyprlauncher
A fast, multipurpose application launcher and picker built for the Hyprland Wayland compositor.
sirula
A simple Rust app launcher for Wayland that starts applications from their .desktop files.
nwg-drawer
A searchable full-screen application drawer for sway, Hyprland and other wlroots Wayland compositors.
j4-dmenu-desktop
A fast desktop-entry launcher that feeds installed applications into dmenu or a compatible menu.
