emacs app-launcher launch gui application by opening their desktop entries

Emacs app-launcher is a package that will launch gui application by opening their desktop entries.

It use the xdg specification and will open application installed with the system package manager like apt, snap, flatpak and nixpkgs

the app-launcher opens in the minibuffer and displays a list of the applications on your system with desktop entries, it doesnt display any icons next to the application but there is a open github issue request icon support from a year ago

After you select an application to launch the app-launcher window in the mini buffer automatically hides, the app-launcher use code from the Counsel package and one of the contributors is David Wilson from @SystemCrafters

app-launcher isnt in the melpa repo but can be installed with straight.el, use-package or by manually downloading the app-launcher.el into your ~/.config/emacs/lisp directory

to enable the app-launcher package add the following code to your emacs init.el file

(require 'app-launcher)

to run the app-launcher package run the following command in the minibuffer

M-x app-launcher-run-app

you can also bind app-launcher-run-app to a keyboard shortcut

emacs app-laucher: https://github.com/SebastienWae/app-launcher

emacs early-init.el https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/ubuntu-dotfiles/blob/master/.config/emacs/early-init.el

emacs init.el https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/ubuntu-dotfiles/blob/master/.config/emacs/init.el

it should also be possible to create an emacs frame that opens the app-launcher in the style of spotlight or alfred on the mac

emacs frames https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/cerberus/blob/master/emacs/emacs-frames.org ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQgwx59fmCQ