Open Source Launchers

Geode iOS Launcher is a specialized utility designed to install, manage, and launch a modified version of Geometry Dash with Geode modding support on iOS devices, overcoming Apple’s restrictive app distribution policies through sideloading techniques. It acts as a bridge between the Geode modding ecosystem and iOS, enabling users to run modded versions of the game without requiring a traditional jailbreak. The application supports multiple installation methods, including SideStore, developer certificates, and other sideloading approaches, each offering different levels of functionality and compatibility. It incorporates mechanisms to enable or simulate Just-In-Time execution, allowing mods to function even under Apple’s limitations, including partial support through JIT-less execution modes. The launcher also integrates mod management features, letting users browse, install, and update modifications directly within the app environment.

Windows portable app maker: launcher(s), runtime, and gui designed to help you run non-portable applications in a portable manner.

DosBlaster is a DOS game launcher to run DOS games. It requires DOSBOX (http://www.dosbox.com) as a backend to run the game. The users import the games and then run them.

FileRally is a launcher or dock for files. FileRally displays an always up-to-date virtual folder containing your most frequently used and most recently used files. The files you are most likely to need are at your fingertips without navigation, without searching, without settings changes, and without an app launcher. Setup is extremely simple. Just point to your files and go. See settings screen shots below and project web site. v1.4 is for 64-bit systems only. Use v1.2 with 32-bit systems.

wmalauncher is an easy to use and highly configurable application launcher especially designed for fluxbox, but which also works well under blackbox, openbox, windowmaker. wmalauncher supports XPM, PNG, SVG icons, .desktop files, true-type fonts (for tooltip text), allows to configure, among others, the brightness, contrast and gamma correction of icons, allows to draw a frame around the button, etc...

Allows configuring launch options and configuring more than one copy of the game, allowing simultaneously launching several instances. It also has account management for the auto-login feature, so it's easy and fast accessing more than one account on the same computer without having to re-enter the login info every time you want to change accounts. Small and 100% stand-alone: it doesn't require any 3rd party software installed in the computer.

The OpenVPN-GUI project requires you to configure Windows to launch it with elevated privileges, and also requires an awkward process of launching, right-clicking and selecting a connection to open. This launcher handles both tasks graphically. Requires .NET Framework 2.0 or higher.

nnn is a fork of noice, a blazing-fast lightweight terminal file browser with easy keyboard shortcuts for navigation, opening files and running tasks. noice is developed considering terminal based systems. There is no config file and mime associations are hard-coded. However, the incredible user-friendliness and speed make it a perfect candidate for modern distros. nnn works with the desktop opener, adds new navigation options, navigate-as-you-type mode, enhanced DE integration, bookmarks, a disk usage analyzer mode, comprehensive file details and much more. Add to that a huge performance boost. If you want to edit a file in vim with some soothing music in the background while referring to a spec in your GUI PDF viewer, nnn got it! Quickstart and see how nnn simplifies those long desktop sessions... Demo: https://vimeo.com/215489406

FoML is the launcher users use to connect to the development servers of the Face of Mankind Emulator team. It supports a custom "Community Resource Pack" system which automatically downloads and install any content required by the emulator.

A simple BeOS application/file/folder launcher.

A cross-platform application launcher providing a GUI for application shortcuts consisting of name, command, description, icon, and sound. Provides the ability to categorise related items into groups.

TkLauncher is a small desktop launcher for GNU/Linux mainly to be used with amiwm (Amiga window manager): https://www.lysator.liu.se/~marcus/amiwm.html

Frunner is file and application launcher like Launchy.

launchsome is a small Qt5-based panel application launcher for lightweight window managers such as awesome and fluxbox that sits in your system tray for quick and easy access.

A Lisp script and application launcher for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The launcher mimics Java/JAR application distribution paradigm for Lisp and allows creation of relatively complex executable source code application distributions.