Application launcher for wlroots based Wayland compositors, similar to rofi's drun mode.

Xstarter is described as 'Terminal-based application launcher for Unix-like systems' and is a application launcher in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Xstarter for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, iPhone and iPad apps. The best Xstarter alternative is Vicinae, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Xstarter are Raycast, Keypirinha, Albert and Leader Key.
Application launcher for wlroots based Wayland compositors, similar to rofi's drun mode.

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.

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.


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.


A replacement for i3-dmenu-desktop
Its purpose is to find .desktop files and offer you a menu to start an application using dmenu.
This is a fork of Rofi with added support for Wayland via the layer shell protocol.


[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 ]


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.
