sway-launcher-desktop
TUI Application launcher with Desktop Entry support. Made for SwayWM, but runs anywhere (by Biont)
Fly-Pie
:pie: Fly-Pie is an innovative marking menu written as a GNOME Shell extension. (by Schneegans)
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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.
sway-launcher-desktop
Posts with mentions or reviews of sway-launcher-desktop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
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Sway-Talisman: Terminal Application Launcher in Scratchpad, Minimalist And Native
Is it better than https://github.com/Biont/sway-launcher-desktop ?
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command line menu / launcher?
I use sway-launcher-desktop. It does not really have submenus as you requested, but is still a nice terminal application launcher.
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Albert – open-source keyboard launcher for Linux
I don’t know if anything can beat sway-launcher-desktop (1) for me - bash and fzf are a lightning-fast combo.
1: https://github.com/Biont/sway-launcher-desktop
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Application launcher that displays application names correctly
Here's a list of other launchers for Sway, I personally use sway-launcher-desktop.
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Your favorite launcher ?
Now I use perfect TUI based sway-launcher-desktop
- Is there a place to read about recommended SwayWM builds?
- Goodbye Wofi, Hello FZF
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Duplicate .desktop entries for Visual Studio Code, which ones are the right ones?
Hi! I just started using sway-launcher-desktop, and I noticed that I have several duplicate entries for vscode.
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terminal + fzf as a program launcher?
Sounds like this script https://github.com/Biont/sway-launcher-desktop (it doesn't depend on sway anymore). I've been using it for ages and really like it.
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Overview Of The Unofficial Manjaro Sway Edition
It's sway-launcher-desktop.
Fly-Pie
Posts with mentions or reviews of Fly-Pie.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-05.
- Fly-Pie is an innovative marking menu
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Is it possible to change my app menu?
By the way, I found this extension called Fly-Pie that really reminds me of android. This youtuber happened to talk about how gnome extensions tend to break. From my minimal search today and yesterday, I did see a lot of them are unsupported. Do you agree with what the youtuber said?
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Introducing: Ken-Do - A desktop-agnostic version of my Fly-Pie GNOME Shell extension!
The awesome community feedback I have received for Fly-Pie has been the main motivation to start this new project.
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Fly-Pie 19 released!
This release brings better multi-monitor support, better multi-cursor support, and the option to show tiny labels on each item. For a complete list of changes, you can read the changelog!
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How could I make a script that moves me to a specific workspace?
I posted some ways to get in contact here. And yes, there are plenty of matrix channels where the GNOME devs hang around.
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If you dont complain you get nothing! What features/bug fixes you want to see in future Linux
Fly-Pie gets ported to KDE Plasma as a feature or simply a downloadable package/flatpak
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Fly-Pie now supports GNOME 44!
Star the repository: https://github.com/Schneegans/Fly-Pie
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"GTA V Guns circle" style quick selector?
Something like this perhaps: https://github.com/Schneegans/Fly-Pie? Only works with gnome.
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Burn-My-Windows now includes a new Glitch effect!
One of my other extensions: Fly-Pie
- Burn-My-Windows 23 adds the most ridiculous window animation yet!
What are some alternatives?
When comparing sway-launcher-desktop and Fly-Pie you can also consider the following projects:
yofi - yofi is a minimalistic menu for wayland
easystroke - X11 gesture recognition application
awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.
Burn-My-Windows - 🔥 Disintegrate your windows with style.
rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
arch-update - Update indicator for ArchLinux and Gnome-Shell
betterlockscreen - 🍀 sweet looking lockscreen for linux system
Gnome-Pie - A pie menu launcher for linux. Read the release announcement of version 0.7.2 at https://schneegans.github.io/news/2018/10/30/gnome-pie-072 Or have a look at the homepage!
xdg-xmenu - Minimal app menu with xmenu
Shell - Linux Application Launcher using a radial menu, recommended window manager configurations and more
nnn - n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
qt6ct - Qt6 Configuration Tool
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Fly-Pie vs Burn-My-Windows
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Fly-Pie vs arch-update
sway-launcher-desktop vs betterlockscreen
Fly-Pie vs Gnome-Pie
sway-launcher-desktop vs xdg-xmenu
Fly-Pie vs Shell
sway-launcher-desktop vs nnn
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