BobC
I have tried kupfer and rofi and I would not call them light. I didn’t see any great “must have” features either. I haven’t tried the others.
I don’t consider xfce4-appfinder light, either. I see it stays running afterwards. It also forgets instantly what I asked for. Like rofi or kupfer, it is also much better than dmenu, gexec or nothing.
I downloaded Dave’s program from gitlab, and it is working fine from IceWM on all the program’s I’ve tried so far. Initially I found myself not understanding the search. I would type “sp” to find spacefm file search for example, and it lists a couple of programs that begin with “H” (they had “sp” in the description), but I figured out that if I use the fields pulldown each time to change from All to Name it works exactly as I would like it to, so will just do that each time.
PS: I installed synapse. I wouldn’t call it light. It did remember recently run programs, including ones called from elsewhere, which is a nice feature, maybe, but you need to pull it down to show you, and the list shown has no scrollbar. It leaves a 24 mb program running in memory afterwards. Dave’s is much lighter, and looks better as is, IMO.
PSS: I looked at cerebro. It doesn’t look light. It is a java 8 based program and says it comes as an appimage, which I have been warned to question, and so I didn’t look into it further.
I also looked at lighthouse, but it doesn’t use any visual cues like icons, which I consider a requirement.
That leaves ulauncher.io and I will try it next. Ok, I admit that I might be half clueless (as opposed to no clue, lol, forgive me, its Saturday), but after finding a .deb and using dpkg -i to install, then apt-get to install a bunch more packages, then fixing broken packages, I did get ulauncher installed, and it created a desktop icon, but didn’t add to the menu, nor did it pop up when I executed it via run, nor did it work from a terminal. The problems were its default hotkey is Ctrl+Space and due to the install troubles, it didn’t appear on the menu until after the menu automatically rebuilt on the next install/menu rebuild via synaptic. It also isn’t light (1.5 mb + 24 mb memory) but has nice features, ie selectable via preferences screens.
No offense, but can we have Dave’s app launcher work from a hot key? 🙂
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