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nwg-drawer vs wofi
wofi is a GTK-styled launcher and dmenu replacement for wlroots compositors, widely used with Sway, but it is not actively maintained.
nwg-drawer vs Kickoff
Kickoff is a minimalistic fuzzy launcher for wlroots compositors written in Rust, replacing the app grid with a simple rofi-style search prompt.
nwg-drawer vs fuzzel
fuzzel is a native Wayland launcher and fuzzy finder that also works as a dmenu-style picker for scripts, but shows a list prompt rather than a full-screen app grid.
nwg-drawer vs tofi
tofi is a very fast, minimal launcher menu for wlroots compositors with bundled themes from a slim bar to fullscreen, but has no plugin system.
nwg-drawer vs Hyprlauncher
Hyprlauncher is built for Hyprland and adds emoji, Unicode, math and font providers with frequency ranking, beyond just launching applications.
nwg-drawer vs nwg-menu
A start-menu style application menu for sway and wlroots desktops, used by nwg-panel or standalone.
nwg-drawer vs sirula
sirula is a plain Rust launcher for Wayland that starts apps from .desktop files and is styled with CSS, maintained by one author.
nwg-drawer vs Anyrun
Anyrun is a Wayland-native KRunner-style runner extended with plugins, replacing the app grid with a search prompt, and it is not open source.
nwg-drawer vs Whisker Menu
A searchable application menu and launcher plugin for the Xfce panel.
nwg-drawer vs Slingshot
The searchable application launcher and menu built for elementary OS's Pantheon desktop.
nwg-drawer vs rofi
rofi adds a window switcher and dmenu replacement with theming, and is MIT licensed, but uses a keyboard prompt instead of a graphical app grid.