sway-launcher-desktop
TUI Application launcher with Desktop Entry support. Made for SwayWM, but runs anywhere (by Biont)
xdg-xmenu
Minimal app menu with xmenu (by xlucn)
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| sway-launcher-desktop | xdg-xmenu | |
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| 10 | 2 | |
| 585 | 33 | |
| - | - | |
| 4.9 | 5.7 | |
| 7 months ago | 6 months ago | |
| Shell | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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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.
xdg-xmenu
Posts with mentions or reviews of xdg-xmenu.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-21.
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Where all the menu entries?
xmenu https://github.com/phillbush/xmenu and generate with xdg-xmenu https://github.com/OliverLew/xdg-xmenu, I like this style and configuration of it. It is not in lua, but idea and concept is suckless.
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I Wrote a Better xmenu(1) Script
Do you know about xdg-xmenu?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing sway-launcher-desktop and xdg-xmenu you can also consider the following projects:
yofi - yofi is a minimalistic menu for wayland
awesome-appmenu - Tool to create a menu of installed applications for the awesome window manager
awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.
xmenu - a x11 menu utility
rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
awesome-freedesktop - Freedesktop.org menu and desktop icons support for Awesome WM
betterlockscreen - 🍀 sweet looking lockscreen for linux system
dotfiles
nnn - n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
radical - An extensible menu subsystem for Awesome WM
dotfiles - My arch setup script and dotfiles
Sway-DE - 🏠 Sway desktop environment dotfile installation for Arch Linux
sway-launcher-desktop vs yofi
xdg-xmenu vs awesome-appmenu
sway-launcher-desktop vs awesome-wayland
xdg-xmenu vs xmenu
sway-launcher-desktop vs rofi
xdg-xmenu vs awesome-freedesktop
sway-launcher-desktop vs betterlockscreen
xdg-xmenu vs dotfiles
sway-launcher-desktop vs nnn
xdg-xmenu vs radical
sway-launcher-desktop vs dotfiles
sway-launcher-desktop vs Sway-DE