fuzzel Command Examples

A Wayland-native application launcher and fuzzy finder, inspired by rofi and dmenu. More information: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/fuzzel.

• Run applications:

fuzzel

• Run fuzzel in dmenu mode:

fuzzel {{[-d|--dmenu]}}

• Display a menu of the output of the ls command:

{{ls}} | fuzzel {{[-d|--dmenu]}}

• Display a menu with custom items separated by a new line (\n):

echo -e "{{red}}\n{{green}}\n{{blue}}" | fuzzel {{[-d|--dmenu]}}

• Let the user choose between multiple items and save the selected one to a file:

echo -e "{{red}}\n{{green}}\n{{blue}}" | fuzzel {{[-d|--dmenu]}} > {{color.txt}}

• Reset apps usage count (default cache directory: $XDG_CACHE_HOME/fuzzel):

rm -v $HOME/.cache/fuzzel

• Launch fuzzel on a specific monitor, see wlr-randr or swaymsg -t get_outputs:

fuzzel {{[-o|--output]}} "{{DP-1}}"

• Use fuzzel to do an online search:

fuzzel {{[-d|--dmenu]}} {{[-l|--lines]}} 0 --placeholder "{{Type your search}}" | sed 's/^/\"/g;s/$/\"/g' | xargs firefox --search