Wofi

What it does

Build requirements

Building requires PkgConf, Wayland, GLib2, GObject, GTK3, and either CMake or Meson.checked 5 Oct 2026

Combinations

The combi feature lets users show multiple modes together, with each mode loaded at most once.checked 5 Oct 2026

Customization

Wofi is described as highly customizable, with CSS styling and optional configuration, CSS, and colors files.checked 5 Oct 2026

Integration

Wofi is designed for wlroots and uses the wlr-layer-shell protocol; without that protocol or outside Wayland it must be run with --normal-window or it will crash.checked 5 Oct 2026

Intended users

The project describes Wofi for users of wlroots based Wayland compositors such as sway.checked 5 Oct 2026

License

The repository includes the GNU General Public License version 3.checked 5 Oct 2026

Modes

Its built in modes are run, which searches PATH for executables; drun, which searches for desktop files; and dmenu, which reads options from standard input and writes the selected option to standard output.checked 5 Oct 2026

Purpose

Wofi is a launcher and menu program for wlroots based Wayland compositors such as sway.checked 5 Oct 2026

Search

Search matching can use contains, multi-contains, or fuzzy modes, and case insensitive search is available.checked 5 Oct 2026

Security

GitHub reports that the project has no SECURITY.md policy file and no published security advisories.checked 5 Oct 2026

Support and contribution

The README directs bug reports about newer software behavior and patches to the upstream SourceHut project because this fork is not connected to mainstream Wofi.checked 5 Oct 2026

Sway

Wofi does not provide window switching on its own, but its dmenu mode can be used with swaymsg to implement it.checked 5 Oct 2026