Gnome Do - Quicksilver For Linux

I’m into application launchers.

At work (on Windows) I use Find And Run Robot and have gotten really used to launching applications (and a lot of other neat functionality) with the keyboard. I’ve been missing the same thing on Gnome at home but tonight stumbled upon Gnome Do it’s still fairly immature but so far I’ve not had any issues with it and it will launch apps, find my bookmarks, and with a few plugins will search my Tomboy notes as well as skim though my MP3 collection in Rhythmbox. Very slick!!! Installation was just a matter of adding a new repository and doing an apt-get install. The author has a blog where you can read a bit more about the project.

This entry was written by Jim, posted on December 5, 2007 at 11:08 pm.

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3 Comments

  1. Michael Sharman
    Posted December 6, 2007 at 9:04 am | Permalink

    There’s also Katapult which (as an app launcher) is for KDE but works well on Ubuntu. Only problem is I can’t figure out how to customise it!

  2. Micah
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 1:00 pm | Permalink

    I’d recommend Launchy for windows. Very nice.

  3. Jim
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 9:09 pm | Permalink

    On Windows I’m a heavy user of Find and Run Robot (FARR)

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