Platforms
- Linux




Apps similar to Xstarter include Vicinae, which is free and open source. Other options are Raycast, AppGrid for KDE, Keypirinha and RustCast. There's no shortage of Application Launchers like Xstarter, with more than 25 alternatives for Linux, Windows, Mac, iPhone and iPad.




Rocket is an application launcher for KDE Plasma. It sorts all of your applications in a horizontal grid alphabetically, so you will always find what you are looking for at first glance. No more menu navigation, only scrolling.




Do you often find yourself looking for a program in the long list of the Start menu?




Blaze is an application launcher that distinguishes from amongst the others by being able to automate recurrent tasks performed in the file-system or even any application on Microsoft Windows.




Advanced Run is a replacement for a standard Windows Run dialog. Advanced Run allows you to run any program, run any command line command, open and edit and print documents on behalf of any user account without switching between user accounts.



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.

A replacement for i3-dmenu-desktop
Its purpose is to find .desktop files and offer you a menu to start an application using dmenu.
The Application Finder is a program to find and launch installed applications on your system, and quickly execute commands.



PortAL is very light portable software launcher which is based on hotkeys, menus and system tray icons.


[Last update was released on 05 Oct 2007, but you can download it from Softpedia.com on http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Other-Desktop-Enhancements/LaunchTab.shtml ]


Colibri combines the raw power of the command line with the intuitive nature of a modern graphical user interface to define a revolutionary new way of managing your computer.

