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The Best App Launchers for Ubuntu & Linux Mint - OMG! Ubuntu!

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qdore/Mutate plugins in Python and shell script
Pext - Python-based Extendable Tool Python/Qt
Zazu App Node.js app
ManuelSchneid3r/albert plugins in Qt/C++
Synapse in Launchpad
Launchy: The Open Source Keystroke Launcher

Rofi

Rofi Documentation
davatorium/rofi: Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement

yay -S rofi rofimoji rofi-power-menu
# combin modes
rofi -show drun
rofi -show combi -combi-modi "drun,windowcd,run"

newmanls/rofi-themes-collection: Themes Collection for Rofi Launcher

User scripts · davatorium/rofi Wiki · GitHub
davatorium/rofi-scripts: Small scripts for use with rofi
adi1090x/rofi: A huge collection of Rofi based custom Applets, Launchers & Powermenus. ❗!important

fdw/rofimoji: Emoji, unicode and general character picker for rofi and rofi-likes
jluttine/rofi-power-menu: Configurable power menu mode for Rofi and dmenu
ceuk/rofi-screenshot: Use rofi and ffcast to perform various types of screenshots and screen captures

How to Setup and Configure Rofi (The Best App Launcher) - YouTube
Rofi Is Like Dmenu But Sucks Less - YouTube
Make Rofi More Awesome With These Scripts - YouTube
Using Rofi for EVERYTHING! (Wifi menu, emoji selector, calculator, & more) - YouTube
Rofi - Application Launcher, Window Switcher and Run Command Utility - YouTube

Wofi

wayland

wofi: Wofi is a launcher/menu program for wlroots based wayland compositors such as sway

Ulauncher

Python + Gtk

Ulauncher — Application launcher for Linux 🐧
Browse Extensions — Ulauncher Extensions

Ulauncher - An Application Launcher for Linux Desktops
Ulauncher Fast Application Launcher - YouTube

Albert

Albert - Welcome
albertlauncher/albert: A fast and flexible keyboard launcher

Making Albert launcher on linux as good as Alfred, one step at a time : linux
Search · Albert launcher

Extensions are Python scripts
Albert - Python extension
Create Albert extensions in Python
albertlauncher/python: A repository for the official Python extensions
/usr/share/albert/org.albert.extension.python/modules
~/.local/share/albert/org.albert.extension.python/modules
~/.local/share/albert/org.albert.extension.externalextensions/extensions
Albert Extensions
BharatKalluri/Albert-Extras: A collection of nifty Albert extensions written in python
nglgzz-archive/albert-plugins: Plugins for albert launcher

Plugins are Native Qt Plugins
Albert - Extending Albert
albertlauncher/plugins: Albert plugins
/usr/lib/albert/plugins
plugins/templateExtension at master · albertlauncher/plugins

dmenu

dmenu: run prompt with auto complete
Add An Applications Menu To Any Window Manager - YouTube

Sunbeam

Home | Sunbeam
pomdtr/sunbeam: Command-line launcher

Introduction | Sunbeam
Guidelines | Sunbeam

Extension Catalog | Sunbeam

sunbeam - A general purpose command-line launcher.

Cerebro

cross platforms

Cerebro App - Open Source productivity booster with a brain
cerebroapp/cerebro: 🔵 Cerebro is an open-source launcher to improve your productivity and efficiency

cerebroapp/awesome-cerebro: Curated list of Cerebro plugins and resources
cerebro-plugin - npms

Windows

Wox
Find and Run Robot - DonationCoder.com Launcher
LaunchBar Commander - DonationCoder.com Dock
donationcoder / mouser - YouTube
Home - Command E

OSX

macos#Launcher