Fly-Pie Alternatives

Fly-Pie is described as ':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' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Fly-Pie for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, File Explorer and Flatpak apps. The best Fly-Pie alternative is Listary, which is free. Other great apps like Fly-Pie are Keypirinha, Quicksilver, Gnome Do and Direct Folders.

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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.

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Fly-Pie alternatives page was last updated Nov 23, 2024
  1. grun icon
     3 likes

    gRun is a GTK based Run dialog that closely resembles the Windows Run dialog, just like xexec. It has a intelligent history mechanism and a dual level fork() mechanism for launching the application in its own process.

    22 grun alternatives
    grun screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    grun Features

    1.  Launcher
    2.  Gtk
    Discontinued

    Last update in 2020: https://github.com/lrgc/grun

    grun iconFly-Pie Icon

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  2.  1 like

    A replacement for i3-dmenu-desktop

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

    11 j4-dmenu-desktop alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    j4-dmenu-desktop Features

    1.  Launcher
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  3. Slingscold icon
     1 like

    Slingscold is a lightweight app launcher for GNU/Linux, written in Vala and utilizing GTK+ and Cairo.

    5 Slingscold alternatives
    Slingscold screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Slingscold Features

    1.  Launcher
    2.  macOS-like
    Discontinued

    Last Update: 2015-08-0

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  4.  1 like

    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.

    36 GNOME Launch Box alternatives
    GNOME Launch Box

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Discontinued

    This app seems to be totaly discontinuited. The official page on Gnome project points to an inexistant git repo. In Debian archives, last known version is 0.2-1.1:https://archive.debian.net/fr/source/lenny/gnome-launch-boxActivity at FTP link dates back to 2009:http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-launch-box/

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  5. Mini Run icon
     1 like

    A handy tool to start application by keyboard.

    107 Mini Run alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Mini Run iconFly-Pie Icon

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  6. Slingshot launcher icon
     1 like

    Slingshot is the lightweight and stylish app launcher designed for elementary OS .

    5 Slingshot launcher alternatives
    Default grid view

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Slingshot launcher Features

    1.  Launcher
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  7. nwg-drawer icon
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    Application launcher, developed with sway and Hyprland in mind, but should also work with other wlroots-based Wayland compositors.

    52 nwg-drawer alternatives
    nwg-drawer screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  Works Offline
    4.  No Tracking
    nwg-drawer iconFly-Pie Icon

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  8.  Like this app

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

    51 nwg-menu alternatives
    nwg-menu screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    nwg-menu Features

    1.  No Tracking
    2.  Works Offline
    3.  Ad-free
    4.  No registration required
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  9.  Like this app

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

    54 wofi alternatives
    wofi screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused
    2.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Works Offline
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Ad-free
    Discontinued

    This project is not being actively maintained. It does still receive some updates from time to time but nothing frequent.

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