Anyrun is a Wayland-native application launcher inspired by KRunner.
It offers a highly extensible plugin architecture and extensive visual customisation through GTK4 CSS.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Runs natively under Wayland using GTK4 Layer Shell.
- Searches and launches installed desktop applications.
- Supports a straightforward plugin architecture for adding new functionality.
- Executes plugin functions asynchronously to maintain a responsive interface.
- Offers extensive appearance customisation with GTK4 CSS.
- Searches Unicode symbols and copies them to the clipboard.
- Performs calculations and unit conversions.
- Runs shell commands directly from the launcher.
- Translates text and looks up dictionary definitions.
- Provides file searching through Kidex.
- Supports configurable web search engines.
- Can operate as a dmenu-like fuzzy selector.
- Runs graphical Nix packages without installing them permanently.
- Supports custom commands and power-management actions.
- Allows configuration options to be overridden with command-line arguments.
Website: anyrun-org/anyrun
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Developer: anyrun-org
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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