tofi(5) File Formats Manual tofi(5) NAME tofi - configuration file DESCRIPTION The config file format is basic .ini/.cfg style. Options are set one per line, with the syntax: option = value Whitespace is ignored. Values starting or ending with whitespace can be given by enclosing them in double quotes like so: option = " value " Lines beginning with # or ; are treated as comments. Section headers of the form [header] are currently ignored. All options and values are case-insen- sitive, except where not possible (e.g. paths). Later options override ear- lier options, and command line options override config file options. SPECIAL OPTIONS include=path Include the contents of another config file. If path is a relative path, it is interpreted as relative to this config file's path (or the current directory if --include is passed on the command line). Inclu- sion happens immediately, before the rest of the current file's con- tents are parsed. BEHAVIOUR OPTIONS hide-cursor=true|false Hide the mouse cursor. Default: false text-cursor=true|false Show a text cursor in the input field. Default: false history=true|false Sort results by number of usages. By default, this is only effective in the run and drun modes - see the history-file option for more informa- tion. Default: true history-file=path Specify an alternate file to read and store history information from / to. This shouldn't normally be needed, and is intended to facilitate the creation of custom modes. The default value depends on the current mode. Defaults: * tofi: None (no history file) * tofi-run: $XDG_STATE_HOME/tofi-history * tofi-drun: $XDG_STATE_HOME/tofi-drun-history fuzzy-match=true|false If true, searching is performed via a simple fuzzy matching algorithm. If false, substring matching is used, weighted to favour matches closer to the beginning of the string. Default: false require-match=true|false If true, require a match to allow a selection to be made. If false, making a selection with no matches will print input to stdout. In drun mode, this is always true. Default: true auto-accept-single=true|false If true, automatically accept a result if it is the only one remaining. If there's only one result on startup, window creation is skipped alto- gether. Default: false hide-input=true|false If true, typed input will be hidden, and what is displayed (if any- thing) is determined by the hidden-character option. Default: false hidden-character=char Replace displayed input characters with char. If char is set to the empty string, input will be completely hidden. This option only has an effect when hide-input is set to true. Default: * drun-launch=true|false If true, directly launch applications on selection when in drun mode. Otherwise, just print the Exec line of the .desktop file to stdout. Default: false terminal=command The terminal to run terminal programs in when in drun mode. command will be prepended to the the application's command line. This option has no effect if drun-launch is set to true. Default: the value of the TERMINAL environment variable drun-print-exec=true|false WARNING: This option does nothing, and may be removed in a future ver- sion of tofi. Default: true late-keyboard-init=true|false Delay keyboard initialisation until after the first draw to screen. This option is experimental, and will cause tofi to miss keypresses for a short time after launch. The only reason to use this option is per- formance on slow systems. Default: false multi-instance=true|false If true, allow multiple simultaneous processes. If false, create a lock file on startup to prevent multiple instances from running simultane- ously. Default: false ascii-input=true|false Assume input is plain ASCII, and disable some Unicode handling func- tions. This is faster, but means e.g. a search for "e" will not match "A(C)". Default: false STYLE OPTIONS font=font Font to use. If font is a path to a font file, tofi will not have to use Pango or Fontconfig. This greatly speeds up startup, but any char- acters not in the chosen font will fail to render. If a path is not given, font is interpreted as a font name in Pango format. Default: "Sans" font-size=pt Point size of text. Default: 24 font-features=features Comma separated list of OpenType font feature settings to apply. The format is similar to the CSS "font-feature-settings" property. For ex- ample, "smcp, c2sc" will turn all text into small caps (if supported by the chosen font). Default: "" font-variations=variations Comma separated list of OpenType font variation settings to apply. The format is similar to the CSS "font-variation-settings" property. For example, "wght 900" will set the weight of a variable font to 900 (if supported by the chosen font). Default: "" background-color=color Color of the background. See COLORS for more information. Default: #1B1D1E outline-width=px Width of the border outlines. Default: 4 outline-color=color Color of the border outlines. See COLORS for more information. Default: #080800 border-width=px Width of the border. Default: 12 border-color=color Color of the border. See COLORS for more information. Default: #F92672 text-color=color Color of text. See COLORS for more information. Default: #FFFFFF prompt-text=string Prompt text. Default: "run: " prompt-padding=px Extra horizontal padding between prompt and input. Default: 0 prompt-color=color Color of prompt text. See COLORS for more information. Default: Same as text-color prompt-background=color Background color of prompt. See COLORS for more information. Default: #00000000 prompt-background-padding=directional Extra padding of the prompt background. See DIRECTIONAL VALUES for more information. Default: 0 prompt-background-corner-radius=px Corner radius of the prompt background. Default: 0 placeholder-text=string Placeholder input text. Default: "" placeholder-color=color Color of placeholder input text. See COLORS for more information. Default: #FFFFFFA8 placeholder-background=color Background color of placeholder input text. See COLORS for more infor- mation. Default: #00000000 placeholder-background-padding=directional Extra padding of the placeholder input text background. See DIRECTIONAL VALUES for more information. Default: 0 placeholder-background-corner-radius=px Corner radius of the placeholder input text background. Default: 0 input-color=color Color of input text. See COLORS for more information. Default: Same as text-color input-background=color Background color of input. See COLORS for more information. Default: #00000000 input-background-padding=directional Extra padding of the input background. See DIRECTIONAL VALUES for more information. Default: 0 input-background-corner-radius=px Corner radius of the input background. Default: 0 text-cursor-style=bar|block|underscore Style of the text cursor (if shown). Default: bar text-cursor-color=color Color of the text cursor. Default: same as input-color text-cursor-background=color Color of text behind the text cursor when text-cursor-style=block. Default: same as background-color text-cursor-corner-radius=px Corner radius of the text cursor. Default: 0 text-cursor-thickness=px Thickness of the bar and underscore text cursors. Default: font-dependent when text-cursor-style=underscore, 2 otherwise. default-result-color=color Default color of result text. See COLORS for more information. Default: Same as text-color default-result-background=color Default background color of results. See COLORS for more information. Default: #00000000 default-result-background-padding=directional Default extra padding of result backgrounds. See DIRECTIONAL VALUES for more information. Default: 0 default-result-background-corner-radius=px Default corner radius of result backgrounds. Default: 0 alternate-result-color=color Color of alternate (even-numbered) result text. See COLORS for more in- formation. Default: same as default-result-color alternate-result-background=color Background color of alternate (even-numbered) results. See COLORS for more information. Default: same as default-result-background alternate-result-background-padding=directional Extra padding of alternate (even-numbered) result backgrounds. See DI- RECTIONAL VALUES for more information. Default: same as default-result-background-padding alternate-result-background-corner-radius=px Corner radius of alternate (even-numbered) result backgrounds. Default: same as default-result-background-corner-radius num-results=n Maximum number of results to display. If n = 0, tofi will draw as many results as it can fit in the window. Default: 0 selection-color=color Color of selected result. See COLORS for more information. Default: #F92672 selection-match-color=color Color of the matching portion of the selected result. This will not al- ways be shown if the fuzzy-match option is set to true. Any color that is fully transparent (alpha = 0) will disable this highlighting. See COLORS for more information. Default: #00000000 selection-padding=px WARNING: This option is deprecated, and will be removed in a future version of tofi. You should use the selection-background-padding option instead. Extra horizontal padding of the selection background. If px = -1, the padding will fill the whole window width. Default: 0 selection-background=color Background color of selected result. See COLORS for more information. Default: #00000000 selection-background-padding=directional Extra padding of the selected result background. See DIRECTIONAL VALUES for more information. Default: 0 selection-background-corner-radius=px Corner radius of the selected result background. Default: 0 result-spacing=px Spacing between results. Can be negative. Default: 0 min-input-width=px Minimum width of input in horizontal mode. Default: 0 width=px|% Width of the window. See PERCENTAGE VALUES for more information. Default: 1280 height=px|% Height of the window. See PERCENTAGE VALUES for more information. Default: 720 corner-radius=px Radius of the window corners. Default: 0 anchor=position Location on screen to anchor the window. Supported values are top-left, top, top-right, right, bottom-right, bottom, bottom-left, left, and center. Default: center exclusive-zone=-1|px|% Set the size of the exclusive zone. A value of -1 means ignore exclu- sive zones completely. A value of 0 will move tofi out of the way of other windows' exclusive zones. A value greater than 0 will set that much space as an exclusive zone. Values greater than 0 are only mean- ingful when tofi is anchored to a single edge. Default: -1 output=name The name of the output to appear on, if multiple outputs are present. If empty, the compositor will choose which output to display the window on (usually the currently focused output). Default: "" scale=true|false Scale the window by the output's scale factor. Default: true margin-top=px|% Offset from top of screen. See PERCENTAGE VALUES for more information. Only has an effect when anchored to the top of the screen. Default: 0 margin-bottom=px|% Offset from bottom of screen. See PERCENTAGE VALUES for more informa- tion. Only has an effect when anchored to the bottom of the screen. Default: 0 margin-left=px|% Offset from left of screen. See PERCENTAGE VALUES for more information. Only has an effect when anchored to the left of the screen. Default: 0 margin-right=px|% Offset from right of screen. See PERCENTAGE VALUES for more informa- tion. Only has an effect when anchored to the right of the screen. Default: 0 padding-top=px|% Padding between top border and text. See PERCENTAGE VALUES for more in- formation. Default: 8 padding-bottom=px|% Padding between bottom border and text. See PERCENTAGE VALUES for more information. Default: 8 padding-left=px|% Padding between left border and text. See PERCENTAGE VALUES for more information. Default: 8 padding-right=px|% Padding between right border and text. See PERCENTAGE VALUES for more information. Default: 8 clip-to-padding=true|false Whether to clip text drawing to be within the specified padding. This is mostly important for allowing text to be inset from the border, while still allowing text backgrounds to reach right to the edge. Default: true horizontal=true|false List results horizontally. Default: false hint-font=true|false Perform font hinting. Only applies when a path to a font has been spec- ified via font. Disabling font hinting speeds up text rendering appre- ciably, but will likely look poor at small font pixel sizes. Default: true COLORS Colors can be specified in the form RGB, RGBA, RRGGBB or RRGGBBAA, option- ally prefixed with a hash (#). PERCENTAGE VALUES Some pixel values can optionally have a % suffix, like so: width = 50% This will be interpreted as a percentage of the screen resolution in the relevant direction. DIRECTIONAL VALUES The background box padding of a type of text can be specified by one to four comma separated values, with meanings similar to the CSS padding prop- erty: * One value sets all edges. * Two values set (top & bottom), (left & right) edges. * Three values set (top), (left & right), (bottom) edges. * Four values set (top), (right), (bottom), (left) edges. Specifying -1 for any of the values will pad as far as possible in that di- rection. AUTHORS Philip Jones <philj56@gmail.com> SEE ALSO tofi(1), dmenu(1) rofi(1) 2026-08-29 tofi(5)
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