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Rofi - power menu

A themed Rofi power menu: lock, suspend, logout, reboot, shutdown - with uptime display and quick-select keys.

Package: powermenu-rofi (binary: rofi-powermenu)

Overview

src/rofi/powermenu/
├── default.nix
├── bin/
│   └── menu              # the power menu script
└── share/
    ├── conf.rasi         # rofi config with quick-select keys
    └── powermenu.rasi    # fullscreen centered theme with feather icons

Lists five actions as Nerd Font icons, shows uptime + hostname as a message, and dispatches the selected action:

shutdown='󰐦'
reboot='󰑓'
lock=''
suspend='󰒲'
logout='󰿅'

uptime="$(uptime | sed -e 's/up //g' | cut -f2 -d ' ')"
ifhost=$(hostname)

rofi_cmd() {
  rofi -dmenu \
    -p "Goodbye ${USER}" \
    -mesg "Uptime $ifhost: $uptime" \
    -config "${SRC_DIR}/share/conf.rasi"
}

run_rofi() {
  echo -e "$lock\n$suspend\n$logout\n$reboot\n$shutdown" | rofi_cmd
}

Actions

Icon Action Command
󰐦 shutdown systemctl poweroff
󰑓 reboot systemctl reboot
lock loginctl lock-session (after 0.5s sleep)
󰒲 suspend systemctl suspend
󰿅 logout uwsm stop + sudo pkill -9 -u $(whoami)

Quick-select keys

The conf.rasi binds single keys to each option (no modifier needed):

Key Option
l lock
s suspend
e logout
r reboot
S (Shift+s) shutdown

Direct logout flag

Passing -l skips the menu and logs out immediately:

[[ $1 == "-l" ]] && logout_fn && exit 0

Logout is aggressive

The logout_fn runs uwsm stop then sudo pkill -9 -u $(whoami) - this kills all your user processes. It requires passwordless sudo for pkill to work non-interactively.

Theme

conf.rasi

Same keybind layout as other rofi packages (Ctrl+h/j/k/l, mouse click, Return), plus the five quick-select keys above. Imports powermenu.rasi.

powermenu.rasi - centered fullscreen

A fullscreen, transparent overlay (black / 5%) centered on screen. The listview is a single row of 5 circular elements (border-radius: 100%) using the feather icon font at 64px, with generous spacing (50px between elements, 100px margins). The prompt uses JetBrains Mono Nerd Font Bold Italic 64.

* {
    mainbox-margin:              100px 300px;
    element-padding:             55px 60px;
    element-border-radius:       100%;
    element-text-font:           "feather 64";
    background-window:           black/5%;
    background-normal:           white/5%;
    background-selected:         white/15%;
}
Arguments none (or -l for direct logout)
Runtime deps rofi-wayland, killall, systemctl, loginctl, uwsm (for logout)
Package powermenu-rofi
Main program rofi-powermenu

Usage

# Interactive menu
nix run github:semi710/utils#powermenu-rofi

# Direct logout (skip menu)
nix run github:semi710/utils#powermenu-rofi -- -l

{ inputs, pkgs, lib, ... }:
let u = inputs.utils.packages.${pkgs.system};
in {
  home.packages = [ u.powermenu-rofi ];

  wayland.windowManager.hyprland.settings.bind = [
    "$mod SHIFT, q, exec, ${lib.getExe u.powermenu-rofi}"
  ];
}

No theme override

Unlike clients and menus, the power menu has a fixed theme with no *-theme-str override argument. Colors are baked into the rasi file.