Àwárí v0.1.0

Àwárí is a Wayland launcher built on GPUI and fff search. A small GPU-free daemon keeps a frecency-ranked index of your windows, apps and files, and a separate overlay draws that list when you ask for it. Search runs in-process, so there is no helper subprocess per keystroke.

Install

Debian / Ubuntu

sudo apt install ./awari_0.1.0_amd64.deb

Fedora

sudo dnf install ./awari-0.1.0-1.fc44.x86_64.rpm

Arch

sudo pacman -U awari-0.1.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Raw tarballs for all three distros are attached too if you use something else. This is a Git-only project, it builds against a vendored patched GPUI, so it will not come to crates.io. cargo install --git still works for anything you cannot use these on.

After install

Run the daemon under your Wayland session and bind a key. Config lives at ~/.config/awari/config.kdl and is read once at daemon start, awari restart applies edits.

systemctl --user enable --now awari.service

Bind a key to awari toggle-launcher. niri and Hyprland examples are in the README. Best on compositors with wlr-layer-shell (niri, Hyprland, sway, river, labwc), on GNOME and Mutter it falls back to a normal window for apps, files and commands.

What you get

• Windows, apps and files in one fuzzy list, ranked by frecency, no subprocess per character
• Query modes like path browsing (with *.pdf, !node_modules/, ../), o: list, r: regex, > shell commands and arithmetic
• Ten color presets (nord, tokyonight, catppuccin, gruvbox and more), hex tokens only, no CSS, per-token overrides
• Per-row action menu (Open, Show in Folder, Copy Path, Run in Terminal, Run)
• The overlay stays alive hidden by default for instant re-open, or keep-alive = false drops it for the leanest idle footprint, daemon sits at single-digit MB in both cases

From this release line

• The GPU keeps building up otherwise. The overlay idles at about 39 MiB now instead of 141 MiB, and the whole story of how is in the blog post
• Software Vulkan ICD and GL startup filtering made it upstream into Zed itself