Walker + Elephant = Raycast on Linux
iain simmons
October 29, 2025
> [!Note]
> I've since (March 2026) switched to using Vicinae, which is very much like Raycast on Linux and really nice!
I'm running Omarchy on my personal PC and macOS for work and I was missing Raycast.
I was aware that Omarchy started with rofi as the basic app launcher and then later switched to Walker and implemented the menu with it, but today I learned that (together with Elephant) it can do and contains so much more, including (prefixes as defined by Omarchy, use / to see all providers):
- clipboard history/search (prefix: $)
- calculator/unit conversion (prefix: =)
- file search, with preview (prefix: .)
- emoji picker (prefix: :)
- unicode search
- bluetooth devices (connect/disconnect/pair)
- command runner (execute arbitrary commands in your PATH)
- to-do list
- web search (like custom search engines in browsers, pass in the search parameter, prefix: @)
So I implemented a custom web search for MDN like so (using the Google one as an example):
And you could do something similar to search other sites like GitHub:
Discussion in the ATmosphere