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I know this is probably personal preference but I haven't tried out Launchy. This is for Linux, specifically Ubuntu 9.04.

What do most people on here prefer, Launchy, deskbar, or another alternative?


UPDATE - MY SOLUTION

wow, just installed Gnome-do. I'm using the docky theme, its MUCH more useful than deskbar and does exactly what deskbar does as well. I've cleaned up my entire panel now, I only have one at the bottom so it looks kind of like windows, and I have the dock at the top with intellihide :-)

Thanks for your suggestions!

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  • I just noticed the intellihide yesterday... very nice feature.
    – codeLes
    Nov 10, 2009 at 15:45

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gnome-do or krunner which really is superior but I'm not currently using KDE.

GnomeDo also comes with the Docky interface which gives you a very cool dock.

So to sum up:

  1. If using Gnome I use gnome-do
  2. If using KDE I use krunner
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  • I've tried them both, and gnome-do definitely trumps launchy in my opinion.
    – nedned
    Nov 10, 2009 at 2:58
  • I've never used Launchy.
    – codeLes
    Nov 10, 2009 at 3:12
  • I've been using Deskbar and although I like it for its similarities to Spotlight (on Mac), its been crashing for me a lot. It doesn't crash the system, but it exits with an error and needs to be reloaded to the panel.
    – GiH
    Nov 10, 2009 at 5:19
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Kupfer and Wbar does better if you want something really lightweight but ubuntu is by far the worst distro to see a speed improvement, you should try ArchLinux by the Chakra live cd/dvd project and mod it to what you want ...

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Seems to be launchy, Here is an good list . I prefer "Everything", but if you dont need to index your entire drive then stay with launchy.

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  • Everything isn't really Linux :)
    – Molly7244
    Nov 10, 2009 at 2:12

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