Rofi is a window switcher, run dialog, ssh-launcher and dmenu replacement that started as a clone of simpleswitcher, written by Sean Pringle and later expanded by Dave Davenport.
## Configuration
There are two methods of setting configuration options:
- Local configuration. Normally, depending on XDG, in`~/.config/rofi/config.rasi`.
can be expressed in a configuration file like this:
```
configuration {
modi: "window,drun,ssh,combi";
font: "hack 10";
combi-modi: "window,drun,ssh";
}
@theme "solarized"
```
To get a full list of options for`config.rasi`file run`rofi -dump-config` or `rofi -h`. You can write the output of the command directly to your configuration file while running`rofi -dump-config > ~/.config/rofi/config.rasi`.
## Themes
The easiest way to get started theming rofi is by modifying your existing theme.
Themes can be modified/tweaked by adding theming elements to the end of the
config file. The default location of this file is`~/.config/rofi/config.rasi`, if the file does not exists, you can create it.
A basic config:
```
configuration {
modes: [ combi ];
combi-modes: [ window, drun, run ];
}
@theme "gruvbox-light"
/* Insert theme modifications after this */
```
For example if we want to change the`Type to filter`text in the entry box we append the following:
```css
entry {
placeholder: "Type here";
}
```
In the above section,`entry`indicates the widget,`placeholder`is the property we want to modify and we set it to the string`"Type here"`.
