I recommend it if you're a tinkerer or don't like launchers like Ulauncher and Albert, but if you do like these launchers and just want something more performant, then you probably won't be quite as happy using Rofi.

The biggest weakness is that you need to spend a lot of time to read the man page, github, etc to understand how to customize it, and even though I spent hours doing that I find it's just not possible to get it to behave the way I want. You will have to find a third-party jar launcher or just start the jar from the command line. It does not run in the background, which is really nice because it means zero resource usage when you're not using it, but it does make the launch less snappy compared to launchers that do run in the background. Once you have it downloaded and installed, you can right-click on your JAR file and choose Open With Jar Launcher. Rofi's biggest strength is probably the amount of customization, and the performance (rendering huge lists without slowing down your computer). It can be installed into the Menu where, when it is run, it will prompt you to select a JAR file to run. It can also use the JRE within OpenJDK or jdkPortable. Albin Larsson's Experience Rofi is a launcher for tinkerers and power users who use tiling window managers or their own custom desktop environments, are really into minimizing resource usage and/or want to be in full control for other reasons, but for users that want a good clean default experience it's not a great option. jPortable Launcher allows you to easily run Java JARs using the Java Virtual Machine installed on your -enabled device using jPortable.

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