rofi -I am stumped

[stanl]

Could someone please explain to me how this damn program is supposed to work?

Just typing rofi tells me that the following modi are enabled: window,run,ssh.
If I want to enable other modi I should add it to the list of modi in the modi setting.

So, there's a modi line in ~/config.rasi with window,run,and ssh. I add file-browser to the line and it has no effect. Is this really an application that ignores it's own config file?

Now, I can add file-browser with rofi -modi file-browser but then all the other modi are now disabled. That is until I run rofi again where file-browser which was enabled is now disabled and the original window,run and ssh are re-enabled.

Sorry to ramble but what should be a fairly simple program turns out to be increasingly frustrating.

What am I missing?

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Originally Posted by stanl

So, there's a modi line in ~/config.rasi with window,run,and ssh. I add file-browser to the line and it has no effect. Is this really an application that ignores it's own config file?

The configuration should be under "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"/rofi/config.rasi, which usually resolves to ~/.config/rofi/config.rasi

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rofi for more on this.

[stanl]

Thank you for that. I was going crazy.