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  "description": "today iain learned: How to use Walker and Elephant to match Raycast features in Linux",
  "path": "/posts/walker-elephant-raycast-on-linux",
  "publishedAt": "2025-10-29T00:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "at://did:plc:aoqs4f5ru6ztomatyvept7bf/site.standard.publication/3mnlsntqzp72a",
  "tags": [
    "linux",
    "tools",
    "workflow"
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  "textContent": "> [!Note]\n> I've since (March 2026) switched to using Vicinae, which is very much like Raycast on Linux and really nice!\n\nI'm running Omarchy on my personal PC and macOS for work and I was missing Raycast.\n\nI 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):\n\n- clipboard history/search (prefix: $)\n- calculator/unit conversion (prefix: =)\n- file search, with preview (prefix: .)\n- emoji picker (prefix: :)\n- unicode search\n- bluetooth devices (connect/disconnect/pair)\n- command runner (execute arbitrary commands in your PATH)\n- to-do list\n- web search (like custom search engines in browsers, pass in the search parameter, prefix: @)\n\nSo I implemented a custom web search for MDN like so (using the Google one as an example):\n\nAnd you could do something similar to search other sites like GitHub:",
  "title": "Walker + Elephant = Raycast on Linux"
}