The Best 27 Xstarter Alternatives

  • dmenu

    dmenu is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for dwm. It manages large numbers of user-defined menu items efficiently.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Rofi

    Rofi started as clone of simpleswitcher, written by Sean Pringle a popup window switcher roughly based on superswitcher. Simpleswitcher laid the foundations and therefor...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Tray Commander

    Tray Commander is a tray launcher that lets you gain quick access to your most frequently used applications and system commands via a customizable menu. Not only can you...

    Commercial Windows

  • Advanced Run

    Advanced Run is a replacement for a standard Windows Run dialog. Advanced Run allows you to run any program, run any command line command, open and edit and print...

    Free Windows

  • GNOME Launch Box

    Launch Box is generally an application launcher. It's very influenced by Quicksilver for Mac OSX. Remember that this is only a first release so don't get your...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Bashrun2

    Launcher that uses a terminal with a modified bash session. Bashrun2 is the second generation version of bashrun, an application launcher running a modified bash...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • j4-dmenu-desktop

    A replacement for i3-dmenu-desktop Its purpose is to find .desktop files and offer you a menu to start an application using dmenu.

    Free Open Source Linux