grun Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to grun for Linux and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Gnome Do, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to grun and 11 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to grun are dmenu, nwg-menu, Gnome Completion-Run Utility and Mutate.

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  1. Gnome Do icon
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    GNOME Do allows you to quickly search for many items present on your desktop or the web, and perform useful actions on those items.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  2.  2 likes

    This code provides the MenuStart plugin to nwg-panel. It also may be used standalone, however, with a little help from command line arguments.

    57 nwg-menu alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. Application launcher with bash-like completion. It's a simple program which provides a "run program" window, featuring a bash-like TAB completion. It uses GTK+ interface. Also, supports CTRL-R / CTRL-S / "!" for searching through history. Running commands.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4.  6 likes

    Mutate is a simple launcher inspired by Alfred for Ubuntu.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. Fly-Pie icon
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    :pie: Fly-Pie is an innovative marking menu written as a GNOME Shell extension. - GitHub - Schneegans/Fly-Pie: Fly-Pie is an innovative marking menu written as a GNOME Shell extension.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. Xstarter icon
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    Terminal-based application launcher for Unix-like systems.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  7. A replacement for i3-dmenu-desktop

    Its purpose is to find .desktop files and offer you a menu to start an application using dmenu.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. Launch Box is generally an application launcher. It's very influenced by Quicksilver for Mac OSX. Remember that this is only a first release so don't get your hopes up too much. Launch Box is written for the GNOME 2.10 platform and depends on GTK+ 2.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9.  Like

    Launcher/menu program for wlroots based wayland compositors such as sway.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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