You may also be interested in dmenu. Dmenu by itself may not be exactly what you are describing (or maybe it is ... depending on what the xfce tool does), but it is easily scriptable, and there is a large pool of scripts available to change it's behavior.
LOL. Had forgotten about dmenu as actually use it on uzbl. I'll need to do some tinkering to get it to do what I want but googling around I already found some scripts that can help me get started. Thanks Trilby.
Also, thanks everyone else for your suggestions.
]]>Edit: If you miss something you can even write your own plugins in python.
]]>Does anyone know an alternative to XFCE Application Finder (xfce4-appfinder)? I'm trying to build a slim fluxbox setup on my laptop but I wanted something with the functionality of XFCE Appfinder but without the dependencies. I really like the "dynamic search/apropos" thing that XCFE Application Finder delivers.
Thanks in advance everyone.
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