Open Source Launchers

Launchy is a free utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, your desktop icons, and your file manager. Launchy indexes and launches your applications, documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!

QMC2 is a Qt based multi-platform GUI front end for MAME NOTE: A new version is hosted and developed at https://github.com/qmc2/qmc2-mame-fe

wmappl has a new maintainer and home: https://github.com/wildstar84/wmappl wmappl is a simple application launcher dockapp. It is configured with a list of programs and icons which are displayed within the dockapp. If more than six icons are configured, the scroll buttons may be used to cycle through the list.

Easy to configure and use application laucher DockApp (menu button, start menu) for WMaker. wm6x6 supplies 6 start buttons in 6 menus with tooltips and can use XPM, GIF, TIFF, PNG, ... files as icon-pixmaps.

A Duke Nukem 3D Mod Launcher designed to run with the Eduke32 Port written in Java Language.

An application launcher running a modified bash session in a small terminal window, providing all the well known bash features like tab-completion and history. Additional features include terminal rules, regexp based command line rewriting, and more.

Action Key Daemon (aka akdaemon) is a project to write a fully configurable process launcher/controller for makeing use of the special keys on a lot of newer keyboards.

Another App Launcher (aal), is an app launcher with one purpose, to launch applications, and look good doing it.

Blast!! is light, usable, keyboard driven application launcher based on Qt toolkit

BlueRun is a small launcher application written in C using GTK. The launcher features default action, history with auto completion, fork/execvp when executing applications. The goal is to keep the launcher as small as possible (~10k).

CairoLauncher is a nice graphic applications launcher for gnome under linux. It is presented as an animated list that you can filter by name or personnal tags list. It is also possible to customize it : list order, application color and transparency.

Launcher for portable applications on a CD/DVD ROM, USB stick or USB security token. It is intended for service providers to deliver teir customers a comfortable launcher. It is initially developped by SwissSign for a security device.

This project is to develop a GUI/graphical way to create a .desktop file. Whereas alacarte can be used to do this, alacarte requires multiple creation of several launchers if one wants them in several menu areas. The menu specification allows one .desktop file to lists more than one menu location. This project doesn't support all possible .desktop formating choices, but allows the basics for someone who has a wine file, or some other program they would like to launch graphically to easily be done by locating it in the users menu structure or in the system structure (or in a custom location, like the autostart folder).

A simple program launcher epplet. This project has been, for the most part, discontinued. If you'd like to take over this project, drop a mail to me (rhinofile)

GUI Launcher for Flight Gear that is easy to use and easy to modify. Written in Python. Version 0.2 Enables the launch of several aircraft and four airports with settings for clouds, fog, autocoordination

GZLauncher was a GPL Linux Zdaemon Launcher. Please visit http://www.odamex.net

GUI launcher for mplayer, especially usefull for watching movies with subtitles, long command line arguments to mplayer not needed anymore, just few clicks,.. 6 font sizes, fonts included. Only dependancy is Qt4 library.

O Gambler é uma painel de controle aonde você terá a disposição várias opções de configuração que variam de personalização de desktop á configuração de servidores, tudo de forma centralizada, organizada, intuitiva e simples.

Game Launcher is a cross platform, universal front end for emulators. The main goal is to provide a user interface that is easy to use and attractive, yet does not look like a traditional user interface. It should work with any emulator.

An application launcher. It would be cross-platform ...we hope.

Hashdot: Java-platform script launcher

JDistro is a project to build a java distribution. The main sub-projects are an application launcher, a swing desktop with document management and an access to remote applications.

A java application launcher to exec with front-end several comand line programs which only have command line to start.

A modular engine written in Java, that offers simple interfaces & services between modules. Add new modules by yourself or manage modules & versions in the application itself. This application brings frameworks for developper tasks for Swing, AWT or SWT.

A user interface for launching applications via infrared. This is inteneded to allow users to create an interactive juebox/multimedia unit without the need for standard input devices.