Use rofi just to display text?

[mil-ad]

Is it possible to use rofi to just display some formatted text without any lists or matching? There is rofi -e "foo" but that seems to be just for one-liners.

[DaveDavenport]

You can do multi-line just fine with -e.

 rofi -e "Why is this just
for one liners,
when you can do multiple lines easy" -no-config

[mil-ad]

Ah thanks! I was using double quotes with echo:

rofi -e $(echo "Why is this just\nfor one liners\nwhen you can do multiple lines easy")

but it needs single-quotes or printf

[mil-ad]

I think another difference is that with a pipe I can do streaming text but with rofi -e "..." it has to wait for the whole text to appear?

e.g.

rofi -e "$(printf 'foo'; sleep 10; printf '\nbar')"

as opposed to

(printf 'foo'; sleep 10; printf '\nbar') | rofi -dmenu

[DaveDavenport]

If you run latest rofi you can also do:

echo -en "Why is this just\nfor one liners,\nwhen you can do multiple lines easy" | rofi -no-config -e -

[DaveDavenport]

https://davatorium.github.io/rofi/1.7.6/rofi.1/#message-dialog

[mil-ad]

ah very nice! 1.7.6 hasn't landed in Arch repos yet but hopefully soon 🤞🏼