Synapse is a semantic graphical launcher written in Vala that you can use to start applications as well as find and access relevant documents and files.
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Category: Desktop
lxqt-runner – LXQt application launcher
lxqt-runner is a tool used to launch programs quickly by typing their names. A calculator function is implemented too.
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Launchy – application launcher tool
Launchy is a utility designed to help users forget about the application menu, the icons on the desktop, and even the file manager.
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fuzzel – application launcher for wlroots based Wayland compositors
Fuzzel is a Wayland-native application launcher, similar to rofi’s drun mode. It’s free and open source software.
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xstarter – application launcher
xstarter is an application launcher for Linux. It lives in the terminal and works well with tiling window managers (e.g. xmonad, i3 etc).
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Weston – lightweight and functional Wayland compositor
Weston provides a very basic desktop, or a full-featured environment for non-desktop uses such as automotive, embedded, in-flight, and more.
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labwc – Lab Wayland Compositor
Labwc is a wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for wayland, inspired by openbox.
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hikari – stacking Wayland compositor
hikari is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.
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Wayfire – Wayland compositor based on wlroots
Wayfire is a 3D Wayland compositor, inspired by Compiz and based on wlroots. This is free and open source software.
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Notion – tiling, tabbed window manager
Notion is a tiling, tabbed window manager for the X window system. The program is traditionally written to be very usable by mainly using the keyboard.
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wmderland – X11 tiling window manager
wmderland is an X11 tiling window manager using space partitioning trees with no bloated features and a tiny disk footprint.
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Ratpoison – simple window manager
ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no fat library dependencies. It is largely modelled after GNU Screen.
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EXWM – full-featured tiling X window manager for Emacs
EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) is a full-featured tiling X window manager for Emacs built on top of XELB.
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herbstluftwm – manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib
herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib. herbstluftwm is written from scratch.
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bspwm – tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree
bspwm is a tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning. It represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree.
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StumpWM – tiling, keyboard driven X11 window manager
StumpWM is a tiling, window manager written entirely in Common Lisp. It attempts to be highly customizable while relying entirely on the keyboard for input.
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i3 – improved tiling window manager
i3 is a tiling window manager, completely written from scratch. i3 is primarily targeted at advanced users and developers.
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sway – tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager
Sway is an i3-compatible tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11.
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Avant Window Navigator – dock-like bar
Avant Window Navigator (Awn) is a free and open source Mac OS X like panel for the GNOME Desktop written in C.
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Simdock – small dock with pseudo-transparency and good window handling
Simdock is a dockbar that features a zoom effect (like the OS X dock) and customized launchers. Free and open source software.
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