Albert – open-source keyboard launcher for Linux

• albert

  60 7,062 9.4 C++

  A fast and flexible keyboard launcher

  

They literally have section on the website: https://albertlauncher.github.io/installing/#from-source

that refers their github: https://github.com/albertlauncher/albert.git

• rofi

  152 12,374 8.6 C

  Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement

  

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• gmrun

  2 40 0.0 C

  A run utiliy featuring a slim design and bash style auto-completion.

  

• Ulauncher

  64 3,375 9.6 Python

  Feature rich application Launcher for Linux

  

I've been using ulauncher lately — https://ulauncher.io/

Though I'd like to find one that centers properly under Wayland. I'll have to dig into this list.

• sway-launcher-desktop

  10 585 4.9 Shell

  TUI Application launcher with Desktop Entry support. Made for SwayWM, but runs anywhere

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

• kupfer

  2 359 8.9 Python

  kupfer, smart, quick launcher. `master' is kupfer's release branch.

  

• Fly-Pie

  49 1,159 8.8 JavaScript

  :pie: Fly-Pie is an innovative marking menu written as a GNOME Shell extension.

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• Gnome-Pie

  5 306 0.0 Vala

  Discontinued 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!

• cerebro

  6 8,219 3.2 JavaScript

  🔵 Cerebro is an open-source launcher to improve your productivity and efficiency

  

• lighthouse

  2 632 0.0 C

  A simple scriptable popup dialog to run on X. (by emgram769)

• enso

  1 8 10.0 C

  An extensible, cross-platform quasimodal linguistic CLI written in Python. (by tartakynov)

I think https://github.com/tartakynov/enso enso was onto something before its time. Or maybe this particular wheel regularly gets re implemented but never catches on outside IT/dev circles.

• Quicksilver

  16 2,701 7.4 Objective-C

  Quicksilver Project Source

  

Kupfer (gnome) - https://kupferlauncher.github.io

Quicksilver (macos): https://qsapp.com/

I still find myself using these and enjoy the 'wei wu wei' flow of them: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d4LkTstvUL4 (skip to 5 or 11 minutes in)

• CPLauncher

  2 7 0.0 C++

  Launcher application

Agree, that writing your own keyboard launcher is pretty interesting. I am also in free time developing my own launcher. It is crossplatform, work on Mac and Windows, has something similar to Alfred workflows

https://github.com/cplauncher/CPLauncher

• jumpapp

  19 612 4.3 Shell

  A run-or-raise application switcher for any X11 desktop

I use jumpapp[0] and find it fantastic for application switching on Manjaro/KDE.

[0] https://github.com/mkropat/jumpapp.git

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