launcher
Modular IPC-based desktop launcher service (by pop-os)
system-updater
Systemd services for checking for and applying system updates. (by pop-os)
| launcher | system-updater | |
|---|---|---|
| 38 | 4 | |
| 210 | 27 | |
| 3.3% | - | |
| 4.8 | 1.7 | |
| 7 days ago | 4 months ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| Mozilla Public License 2.0 | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
launcher
Posts with mentions or reviews of launcher.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-19.
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Distro hopping from Pop_OS to Fedora
That's why in Gnome, you need a shell extension instead of an app. Shell extensions are written specifically for Gnome, and the documentation sucks, so immediately you have way fewer options. BUT, guess what: PoP OS launcher is a Gnome shell extension (which is why it worked for you), and you can use that in any distro using Gnome, including Fedora. However, it is that it's part of pop-shell, so you also get the other UI customizations (mostly keyboard shortcuts for tiling that you can disable I think). It also requires setting up the back-end service to handle the non-ui side. Maybe there are Fedora packages for it that makes it easier (I don't use Fedora myself, so wouldn't know).
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Is it possible to re-arrange and/or prioritize results in the launcher? Searching for Steam doesn't bring up Steam as a top eight result - just things that have Steam in the description.
I might take a look at that. Is this the right repo?
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If the Pop Launcher could do anything, what would you want it to do?
Just to be clear, you are talking about the Pop Launcher and not the Cosmic Applications Launcher, correct? (since there may be some confusion around what the "Pop Launcher" is vs. the "Cosmic Applications Launcher" ... see https://imgur.com/a/XN34drv for images)
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The Rust Implementation Of GNU Coreutils Is Becoming Remarkably Robust
pop-launcher
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Is it possible to make the launcher that appears when you press the super key not be used to focus on already opened apps? I only use the launcher to start an app, or to do calculations, and never to switch what app is in focus. Is there a way to disable this feature?
This feature has been merged but not yet released: https://github.com/pop-os/launcher/issues/152
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I have been trying to install the pop launcher on fedora but I keep getting this error. What do I do?
Pop launcher github: https://github.com/pop-os/launcher
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Some updates coming to Pop Launcher
You can open any website in your default browser using the "www" pattern, e.g. "www reddit.com" (note, no "." after the "www") github
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Things I learned using gnome and fedora
You can get pop-shell and pop-launcher in fedora.
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Pop launcher doesn't list Steam in results - games on steam are prioritized instead
The last improvement was feat(service): prefer recently/often used applications in search which may have caused this.
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How do I make an alias for the 'recent' plugin (cosmic launcher)?
In the cosmic launcher I use the plugin "recent" to open recent files. I would like to have a shorter keyword for this, like "fr" (for find recent). What is the best way to do this? I have looked at the readme for pop-os/launcher, but copying the system recent plugin to a new one at ~/.local/share/pop-launcher/plugins/fr doesn't work, and breaks the system version. When I remove ~/.local/share/pop-launcher/plugins/fr, then the system version starts working again.
system-updater
Posts with mentions or reviews of system-updater.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-10.
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The Rust Implementation Of GNU Coreutils Is Becoming Remarkably Robust
pop-system-updater
- Do most folks have Automatic Updates turned on?
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auto update notifier & gui for non-tech users?
The most I've heard of is the Pop! OS system updater (https://github.com/pop-os/system-updater) does support updating nix packages (see https://github.com/pop-os/system-updater/blob/master/daemon/src/package_managers/nix.rs). It would probably need some modification to work on NixOS though. Other than that I don't think any graphical package managers are being maintained, although I've been meaning to dive in and make one once I finish the first release of my configuration editor
- Rust projects to learn from?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing launcher and system-updater you can also consider the following projects:
pop-launcher-plugin-duckduckgo-bangs - A Pop launcher plugin to search multiple pages with Duckduckgo bangs.
Nixos-Gui - Gui for Nixos package manager
shell - Pop!_OS Shell
cosmic-settings - COSMIC Settings
Ulauncher - Feature rich application Launcher for Linux
tiler - Generic tiling window manager library in Rust
dlauncher - An application launcher for Linux that is based on Ulauncher
mini-redis - Incomplete Redis client and server implementation using Tokio - for learning purposes only
pop-dictionary - Access English Language dictionary definitions from the Launcher in Pop!_OS ("define XYZ")
nixos-conf-editor - A libadwaita/gtk4 app for editing NixOS configurations
pop-launcher-dictionary - A dictionary inside your launcher
rnix-parser - A Nix parser written in Rust [maintainer=@oberblastmeister]
launcher vs pop-launcher-plugin-duckduckgo-bangs
system-updater vs Nixos-Gui
launcher vs shell
system-updater vs cosmic-settings
launcher vs Ulauncher
system-updater vs tiler
launcher vs dlauncher
system-updater vs mini-redis
launcher vs pop-dictionary
system-updater vs nixos-conf-editor
launcher vs pop-launcher-dictionary
system-updater vs rnix-parser