Walker + Elephant = Raycast on Linux

iain simmons October 29, 2025
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> [!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:

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