GBA games style Sway-WM configuration: Rofi

 

 
Rofi was one of the easiest things to customize. I am familiar with Rofi, since I used it on my other configurations too.
My inspiration for Rofi was the game menu from Final Fantasy Tactics: Advance, because the colours stand out and I like the effect of transparency.

1.1 STYLING

The styling part wasn’t hard, despite being my first time making more changes to the Rofi configuration file.
I started from the default theme and played around with several values and classes until I found what I needed to edit to change the colours and the overall styling to my taste.
While I like the Chicago95 icon pack, it doesn’t cover all of the applications, and Rofi is probably the one that suffers from this the most. Because of this, I decided to disable the icons from the list (which also makes the launcher more similar to the  Final Fantasy Tactics: Advance game menu), but I also think it’s easier and faster to navigate the applications in the list with the icon right next to it. 
 
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance Game Boy Advance Review – Games That I Play 
 
Rofi configuration for my GBA games based Sway-WM configuration

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.2  ADDITIONAL NOTES

There isn’t much else to say about my Rofi configuration, because it was easy and straightforward.
Taking this into account, I think it could be a nice starting point for people who want to work on their configurations.
In addition to this, it also feels rewarding because, being the application launcher, it’s often used and therefore it shows up quite frequently.
 
About the icons, applying custom pixel art icons to the ones that Chicago95 doesn’t cover would solve the issue. However, at the moment this is not in my plans (especially because it takes time), but I can’t deny that it would be interesting.
 
 

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