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



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



dmenu is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for dwm. It manages large numbers of user-defined menu items efficiently.

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

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.

A replacement for i3-dmenu-desktop
Its purpose is to find .desktop files and offer you a menu to start an application using dmenu.
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.

Application launcher, developed with sway and Hyprland in mind, but should also work with other wlroots-based Wayland compositors.

