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Ulauncher is a fast application launcher for Linux. It has a minimal design, dependent on only a few resources, very fast, and works on virtually all Linux desktops. The software is written in Python, using GTK+.
This review is carried out with the latest beta release of the software.
Installation
There’s packages available for many popular Linux distributions. Packages are available for Debian / Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, CentOS, as well as the Arch User Repository.
Or you can download and build the software for yourself. At a shell, type the following commands:
$ git clone https://github.com/Ulauncher/Ulauncher.git
$ python setup.py build
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Page 1 – Introduction / Installation
Page 2 – In Operation
Page 3 – Other Features
Page 4 – Summary
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