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(on Wikipedia)
(screenshots gallery)
http://www.launchy.net/
A launcher application.
These let you type in the name of the program you want to run instead of going through a menu/list.
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Launchy: The Open Source Keystroke Launcher
application launchers
All posts tagged application launchers
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was http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/grd
Meant to be an improvement over the default GNOME run dialog, this still had glaring omissions when I tried it.
- 2022-07-12 – It’s gone from SourceForge.
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As of 2016-12-16 not updated since 2009-11-07 (1.7.0)
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Taskbars, Application launchers >
(on Wikipedia)
https://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXPanel
A straightforward and capable taskbar.
I’ve used this for a long time, and it’s done the job well. I just want something similar to Windows 95.
Software > Application launchers >
Xfce >
Supposedly there’s an application launcher that comes with Xfce, but I’m not sure how to get to it. =/
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Abandoned — 2008-08, the last updated was a while ago, so it looks like this project has been declared “done”.. so it’ll decay.
Software >
https://sourceforge.net/projects/bbtools/ (archive)
was darkops.net/bbrun/
An application launcher originally made for Blackbox.
Software > Application launchers >
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gmrun/
A decent little application launcher.
What a breath of fresh air after going through all sorts of semi-crappy launchers.
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Gnome Completion-Run Utility
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Software >
(on Wikipedia)
katapult.kde.org (archive)
Tightly bound with KDE, so it was unusable for me.
 One of many styles.
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Software > Application launchers >
(on Wikipedia)
https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/
A simple application launcher with intelligent autocompletion.
Awesome and extremely smart; more so than something like Bash or Zsh tab completion. I use it with my run.sh
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From dwm
Software > Application launchers >
https://web.archive.org/web/20101203090306/http://gtk-launch.descamps.net/
A simple application launcher.
Small and to the point, but it’s just bad.
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Abandoned
- Last updated 2003-03-08.
 1.x logo
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Software > Application launchers >
https://github.com/user-none/KDocker
Lets you launch any application with a companion system tray icon (if you have a tray, like fbpanel provides)
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Even though it has a “K” it is not a KDE program.
