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Wofi's configuration format is very simple, consisting of key value pairs in snake case. The majority of the config options are the command line options, there are however a small handful of options only accessible via wofi's config.

Mode specific options for the built-in modes are documented in wofi(7). They are placed in the config file in the format mode-example_opt=val. For example dmenu has an option called parse_action which would be placed in the config as dmenu-parse_action=true.

Anything following a # is considered to be a comment unless the # is prefixed with a \. For this reason in order to put a backslash in the config it must be escaped as well giving \\.

Most of the options here are the command flags as found in wofi(1) in snake case, however some are unique to the config.

style=PATH

Specifies the CSS file to use as the stylesheet.

stylesheet=PATH

Specifies the CSS file to use as the stylesheet. This option is NOT the same as style. Absolute paths are absolute however relative paths are relative to the wofi config folder location $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/wofi and NOT the current working directory as they are with style. They are also NOT relative to the path as specified by --conf. This option comes from rootbar and is probably more confusing than it's worth. You should probably use style unless you're sure this is what you want.

color=PATH

Specifies the colors file to use.

colors=PATH

Specifies the colors file to use. This option is NOT the same as color. Absolute paths are absolute however relative paths are relative to the wofi config folder location $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/wofi and NOT the current working directory as they are with color. They are also NOT relative to the path as specified by --conf. This option comes from rootbar and is probably more confusing than it's worth. You should probably use color unless you're sure this is what you want.

show=MODE

Specifies the mode to run in. A list of modes can be found in wofi(7).

mode=MODE

Identical to show.

width=WIDTH

Specifies the menu width in pixels or percent of screen size, default is 50%. Pixels are used unless the number ends with a %.

height=HEIGHT

Specifies the menu height in pixels or percent of screen size, default is 40%. Pixels are used unless the number ends with a %.

prompt=PROMPT

Sets the prompt to be display in the search box, default is the name of the mode.

xoffset=OFFSET

Sets the x offset from the location in pixels, default is 0.

x=OFFSET

Identical to xoffset.

yoffset=OFFSET

Sets the y offset from the location in pixels, default is 0.

y=OFFSET

Identical to yoffset.

normal_window=BOOL

If true runs wofi in a normal window instead of using wlr-layer-shell, default is false.

allow_images=BOOL

If true allows image escape sequences to be processed and rendered, default is false.

allow_markup=BOOL

If true allows pango markup to be processed and rendered, default is false.

cache_file=PATH

Specifies the cache file to load/store cache, default is $XDG_CACHE_HOME/wofi-<mode name> where <mode name> is the name of the mode, if $XDG_CACHE_HOME is not specified ~/.cache is used.

term=TERM

Specifies the term to use when running a program in a terminal. This overrides the default terminal run order which is kitty, alacritty, wezterm, foot, termite, gnome-terminal, weston-terminal in that order.

password=CHARACTER

Runs wofi in password mode using the specified character, default is false.

exec_search=BOOL

If true activiating a search with enter will execute the search not the first result, default is false.

hide_scroll=BOOL

If true hides the scroll bars, default is false.

matching=MODE

Specifies the matching mode, it can be either contains, multi-contains, or fuzzy, default is contains.

insensitive=BOOL

If true enables case insensitive search, default is false.

parse_search=BOOL

If true parses out image escapes and pango preventing them from being used for searching, default is false.

location=LOCATION

Specifies the location. See wofi(7) for more information, default is center.

no_actions=BOOL

If true disables multiple actions for modes that support it, default is false.

lines=LINES

Specifies the height in number of lines instead of pixels.

columns=COLUMNS

Specifies the number of columns to display, default is 1.

sort_order=ORDER

Specifies the default sort order. There are currently two orders, default and alphabetical. See wofi(7) for details.

gtk_dark=BOOL

If true, instructs wofi to use the dark variant of the current GTK theme (if available). Default is false.

search=STRING

Specifies something to search for immediately on opening

monitor=STRING

Sets the monitor to open on

pre_display_cmd=COMMAND

Specifies a printf-like string which is used on the entries prior to displaying them. This command is only used to represent the label widget's string, and won't affect the the output of the selected label.

orientation=ORIENTATION

Specifies the orientation, it can be either horizontal or vertical, default is vertical.

halign=ALIGN

Specifies the horizontal align for the entire scrolled area, it can be any of fill, start, end, or center, default is fill.

content_halign=ALIGN

Specifies the horizontal align for the individual entries, it can be any of fill, start, end, or center, default is fill.

valign=ALIGN

Specifies the vertical align for the entire scrolled area, it can be any of fill, start, end, or center, the default is orientation dependent. If vertical then it defaults to start, if horizontal it defaults to center.

filter_rate=RATE

Specifies the rate at which search results are updated in milliseconds, default is 100.

image_size=SIZE

Specifies the size of images in pixels when images are enabled, default is 32.

key_up=KEY

Specifies the key to use in order to move up. Default is Up(Up arrow). See wofi-keys(7) for the key codes.

key_down=KEY

Specifies the key to use in order to move down. Default is Down(Down arrow). See wofi-keys(7) for the key codes.

key_left=KEY

Specifies the key to use in order to move left. Default is Left(Left arrow). See wofi-keys(7) for the key codes.

key_right=KEY

Specifies the key to use in order to move right. Default is Right(Right arrow). See wofi-keys(7) for the key codes.

key_forward=KEY

Specifies the key to use in order to move forward. Default is Tab. See wofi-keys(7) for the key codes.

key_backward=KEY

Specifies the key to use in order to move backward. Default is ISO_Left_Tab(Shift+Tab). See wofi-keys(7) for the key codes.

key_submit=KEY

Specifies the key to use in order to submit an action. Default is Return. See wofi-keys(7) for the key codes.

key_exit=KEY

Specifies the key to use in order to exit wofi. Default is Escape. See wofi-keys(7) for the key codes.

key_pgup=KEY

Specifies the key to use in order to move one page up. Default is Page_Up. See wofi-keys(7) for the key codes.

key_pgdn=KEY

Specifies the key to use in order to move one page down. Default is Page_Down. See wofi-keys(7) for the key codes.

key_expand=KEY

Specifies the key to use in order to expand/contract multi-action entires. There is no default. See wofi-keys(7) for the key codes.

key_hide_search=KEY

Specifies the key to use in order to hide/show the search bar. There is no default. See wofi-keys(7) for the key codes.

key_copy=KEY

Specifies the key to use in order to copy the action text for the current entry. The default is Ctrl-c. See wofi-keys(7) for the key codes.

key_custom_(n)=KEY

Allows for configuring custom exit codes. For example setting key_custom_0=Ctrl-0 will make it so if you press Ctrl-0 wofi will set its exit status to 10. This will not cause wofi to exit, it will only set its exit code for when it does. 20 of these keys are configurable numbered 0-19. The exit status used is 10+n where n is the number attached to key_custom_n. There are no defaults for these. See wofi-keys(7) for the key codes.

line_wrap=MODE

Specifies the line wrap mode to use. The options are off, word, char, and word_char. Default is off.

global_coords=BOOL

Specifies whether x and y offsets should be calculated using the global compositor space instead of the current monitor. Default is false. This does not play well with locations and using it with them is not advised.

hide_search=BOOL

Specifies whether the search bar should be hidden. Default is false.

dynamic_lines=BOOL

Specifies whether wofi should be dynamically shrunk to fit the number of visible lines or if it should always stay the same size. Default is false.

layer=LAYER

Specifies the layer to open on. The options are background, bottom, top, and overlay. Default is top

copy_exec=PATH

Specifies the executable to pipe copy data into. $PATH will be scanned, this is not passed to a shell and must be an executable. Default is wl-copy.

single_click=BOOL

Specifies whether or not actions should be executed on a single click or a double click. Default is false.

pre_display_exec=BOOL

This modifies the behavior of pre_display_cmd and causes the command in question to be directly executed via fork/exec rather than through the shell.

Any GTK widget can be selected by using the name of its CSS node, these however might change with updates and are not guaranteed to stay constant. Wofi also provides certain widgets with names and classes which can be referenced from CSS to give access to the most important widgets easily. wofi(7) contains the current widget layout used by wofi so if you want to get into CSS directly using GTK widget names look there for info.

#window

The name of the window itself.

#outer-box

The name of the box that contains everything.

#input

The name of the search bar.

#scroll

The name of the scrolled window containing all of the entries.

#inner-box

The name of the box containing all of the entries.

#img

The name of all images in entries displayed in image mode.

#text

The name of all the text in entries.

#unselected

The name of all entries currently unselected. A better way of doing this is to do #entry and combine that with #entry:selected

#selected

The name of all entries currently selected. A better way of doing this is to do #entry:selected

.entry

The class attached to all entries. This is attached to the inside property box and is old, you probably want #entry instead

#entry

The name of all entries.

#expander-box

The name of all boxes shown when expanding entries with multiple actions

The colors file should be formatted as new line separated hex values. These values should be in the standard HTML format and begin with a hash. These colors will be loaded however wofi doesn't know what color should be used for what so you must reference them from your CSS.

You can reference these from your CSS by doing --wofi-color<n> where <n> is the line number - 1. For example to reference the color on line 1 you would do --wofi-color0.

The colors can also be referenced by doing --wofi-rgb-color<n> where <n> is the line number - 1. The difference between these is the format used to replace the macro.

--wofi-color<n> is replaced with an HTML color code in the format #FFFFFF. --wofi-rgb-color<n> is replaced with comma separated rgb values in the format 255, 255, 255. The correct usage of --wofi-rgb-color<n> is to wrap it in rgb() or rgba(). Note that it does not return an alpha value so combining it with rgba() should be done like so rgba(--wofi-rgb-color0, 0.8). This would set the color to line 1 with an opacity of 80%.

wofi(1), wofi(7).