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Yofi

yofi is a minimalistic menu for wayland

From l4l·Updated June 14, 2026·View on GitHub·

**yofi** is a yofi is a minimalistic menu for wayland The project is written primarily in Rust, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2020. Key topics include: application-launcher, dmenu-replacement, menu, sway, swaywm.

Latest release: pointer-test
July 14, 2024View Changelog →

yofi

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.. is a minimalistic menu for Wayland-based compositors.

Installation

Make sure you setup a wayland environment, in particularly WAYLAND_DISPLAY
env var must be set. wlr_layer_shell protocol is not necessary but preferred.
There are several installation options:

  • Pre-built release binaries are published at the Release page.
    Although these are built in Ubuntu environment it should also work for other Linux distributions.
  • [for Archlinux] there are yofi-bin and
    yofi-git AUR packages for binary and from-source builds.
  • Build last release version from crates.io with cargo install yofi.
  • Build with nix: nix profile install github:l4l/yofi.
  • Or you can manually build from sources.

User documentation

User documentation is located at Wiki pages.
Feel free to open an issue if something
is unclear, missing or outdated.

Building

Cargo

For building the project you need rust compiler and cargo package manager
(usually distributed via rustup). Once installed you
may build & run the project with the following command:

bash
cargo run --release

Nix

You can build project using nix:

bash
nix build

Contributing

Contributions are welcome, but make sure that:

  • [If that's a new feature or it changes the existing behavior] you've discussed it in the issue page before the implementation.
  • Your patch is not a refactoring.
  • rustfmt and clippy are checked.
  • [optionally] Added docs if necessary and an entry in CHANGELOG.md.

Contributors

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