Synapse
Synapse is a semantic launcher written in Vala that you can use to start applications as well as find and access relevant documents and files by making use of the Zeitgeist engine.
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CerebroApp
Cerebro is an open source and free electron-based productivity software alternative to Alfred and Spotlight. It is focused on speed and good UI and UX. In most cases you don't even need to open another application, because you can see results right in Cerebro, like google maps, IMDB movies or contact details.
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Gnome Do
GNOME Do allows you to quickly search for many items present on your desktop or the web, and perform useful actions on those items. GNOME Do is inspired by Quicksilver & GNOME Launch Box .
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- Discontinued The program seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 0.95.3, released on November 2014, can be still downloaded from Launchpad.
- switching from windows to linux, GnomeDo makes very well the job!
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Albert
Access everything with virtually zero effort. Run applications, open files or their paths, open bookmarks in your browser, search the web, calculate things and a lot more. See wiki for more information.
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Freeter
Smartest way to work on your computer. Freeter is a productivity app that allows you to gather everything you need to work in one place and access them quickly and easily.
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Zazu
Zazu is a new open source productivity app, that allows developers to be in the drivers seat. Unlike other solutions, there is no built-in integrations, so every plugin has the full scope of what Zazu has to offer.
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kupfer
Kupfer is a command tool heavily inspired by Quicksilver ; you do not use it to search your files, you use it to summon an application or document quickly by typing the first parts of its name. Kupfer is written using Python and has a flexible architecture. Objects that it can access are implemented in plugins, and new plugins can be written quickly. The philosophy of Kupfer is simplicity.
Program Launcher Configurable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for Keyboard Shortcuts Add a feature
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Ulauncher
* Ulauncher provides instant search results. It also remembers your previous choices and automatically selects the best option for you. * You can type in an application name without worrying about spelling. Ulauncher will figure out what you meant. * Improve your workflow with customizable shortcuts. Create shortcut for web search or your scripts. * Browse files and directories with ease. Type ~ or / to start. Press Alt+Enter to access an alt menu.
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Rofi
Rofi started as clone of simpleswitcher, written by Sean Pringle a popup window switcher roughly based on superswitcher. Simpleswitcher laid the foundations and therefor Sean Pringle deserves most of the credit for this tool. Rofi, renamed as it lost the simple property, has been extended with extra features, like a run-dialog, ssh-launcher and can act as a drop-in dmenu replacement, making it a very versatile tool.
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Index Your Files
Index Your Files allows you to search through all your files or folders on local or networked drives without remote admin rights (as necessary for the similar app "Everything"). Searching can be done by name, date, size, location etc., and boolean operators are available to to perform multiple keyword searches. You can invoke Windows Explorer context menus on found files to perform operations such as drag/drop, copy, rename, delete etc.
15 Like- Discontinued The program is no longer updated since 2012. Last version, 5.0.2.6, released in December 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.
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dmenu
dmenu is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for dwm. It manages large numbers of user-defined menu items efficiently.
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Tracker
Tracker is a search engine and that allows the user to find their data as fast as possible. Users can search for their files and search for content in their files too.
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Mutate
Mutate is a simple launcher inspired by Alfred for Ubuntu. Be more productive with hotkeys, keywords and file actions at your fingertips. Features: * Find Applications & Files * Find Files * Kill process * Google Translate integration Select some words use your mouse, than press ctrl+t(you can define it ) or input 'tr' and some words * Quick-Search the Web - Google search - Github search You can add other keywods such as keywords like wiki, twitter or youtube.
5 Like- Discontinued The last commit to the GitHub repo was on November 5th, 2015.
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Gnome-Pie
Gnome-Pie is a circular application launcher for Linux. It is made of several pies, each consisting of multiple slices. The user presses a key stroke which opens the desired pie. By activating one of its slices, applications may be launched, key presses may be simulated or files can be opened. The user does not need to remember the name of an application – just the direction has to be remembered.
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Gnome Completion-Run Utility
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 in a terminal with CTRL-Enter. URL handlers.
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Slingshot launcher
Slingshot is the lightweight and stylish app launcher designed for elementary OS .
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GNOME Launch Box
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+ 2.6, evolution-data-server 1.2 and gnome-menus. These are currently hard dependencies but the plan is to split out the backends into different optional backends.
1 Like- 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-box Activity at FTP link dates back to 2009: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-launch-box/
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Bashrun2
Launcher that uses a terminal with a modified bash session. Bashrun2 is the second generation version of bashrun, an application launcher running a modified bash session in a small terminal window, providing all the well known bash features like tab-completion and history.
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Slingscold
Slingscold is a lightweight app launcher for GNU/Linux, written in Vala and utilizing GTK+ and Cairo. Slingscold es un ligero lanzador de aplicaciones al estilo launchpad de Mac OS X.
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Xstarter
xstarter - Terminal-based application launcher for Unix-like systems Features - a clean, simple interface that works on various terminals - able to search for applications using environment variables (e.g.
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grun
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. gRun also has support for launching console mode application in an XTerm as well as associations for file types.
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