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originalsurfmex

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Registered: 2008-11-13

Posts: 150

looking for a launcher/desktop search for xfce

i just migrated from kde to xfce and now i am looking for something to replace the integrated launcher/desktop search (alt+f2) function.  i know that nepomuk did have some resources issues but for the most part it gave me few problems...the current xfce "launcher" is super weak.  i would prefer one application that does both rather than a text-based launcher and a separate desktop search.

what does the community recommend?

HackBug

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From: Portland, OR

Registered: 2009-02-06

Posts: 23

Re: looking for a launcher/desktop search for xfce

I haven't used it in a while, but the first thing that comes to mind is Gnome-do.

djszapi

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From: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Registered: 2009-06-14

Posts: 1,439

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Re: looking for a launcher/desktop search for xfce

Did you try gmrun from community  ?

Last edited by djszapi (2009-08-23 05:12:02)

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http://lpapp.blogspot.com

Acecero

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Registered: 2008-06-21

Posts: 1,373

Re: looking for a launcher/desktop search for xfce

Here's a list of application launchers that you can look at.

lang2

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Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 386

Re: looking for a launcher/desktop search for xfce

Use verve-command-line plugin and assign a hot-key to verve-focus. Beats the hell out of gnome-do or launchy!

originalsurfmex

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Registered: 2008-11-13

Posts: 150

Re: looking for a launcher/desktop search for xfce

well the closest thing i could find was gnome-do or launchy combined with something like beagle or google desktop search... i still prefer krunner because it combined a launcher with desktop search which was pretty awesome for my uses.  i just dont want all those kde dependencies.