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There are quite a few of these Quicksilver-clones these days:

* Ulauncher http://ulauncher.io/

* Albert https://github.com/albertlauncher/albert#albert-

* Synapse https://launchpad.net/synapse-project

* Kupfer https://kupferlauncher.github.io/

* Zazu http://zazuapp.org/

* M-x counsel-linux-app http://oremacs.com/2016/03/16/counsel-linux-app/

I've tried a couple, but I always end up back to Alt+F2 in XFCE, since most of these launchers always start so slowly in comparison, and I never use any other features (more than once) than starting Firefox/Emacs/Terminal …



I use synapse. It's lightning fast and does the job. I can't do without it! I'm going to test a few of those alternatives as well, thanks!


Anyone remembers that Firefox extension ? I can't remember its name but it also had about the same funcitonalities.


Ubiquity? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquity_(Firefox)


Rofi is fast, customisable and nice.


I like rofi + i3w on Antergos, after using tiled windows and all the hotkey goodness it'd be hard to switch back to a more window-ed experience.


+1, it's the fastest of all that I've tried. It doesn't do too much out of the box, but it takes a couple frames to launch, as opposed to >1s for many of the alternatives.




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