Open Source C Launchers

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

Rofi started as a clone of the simple switcher, written by Sean Pringle - a popup window switcher roughly based on a super switcher. Simpleswitcher laid the foundations, and therefore Sean Pringle deserves most of the credit for this tool. Rofi (renamed, as it lost the simple property) has been extended with extra features, like an application launcher and ssh-launcher, and can act as a drop-in menu replacement, making it a very versatile tool. Rofi, like dmenu, will provide the user with a textual list of options where one or more can be selected. This can either be running an application, selecting a window, or options provided by an external script. It's not an application that can support every possible use case. It tries to be generic enough to be usable by everybody. Rofi has several built-in modes implementing common use cases and can be extended by scripts (either called from Rofi or calling Rofi) or plugins.

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

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...

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

USBLib based driver for USB foam missile launcher toys. Currently two launchers are supported, but others can easily be added.

Missile Launcher is designed provide a more efficient and open-source program for Windows control of USB missile launchers. Contains a command-line interface and GUI (supports keyboard control). This program is designed to control M&S launchers.

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

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.

For management of tools. This tool is tiny, portable and good for use. The users can also design their own menu by add/delete application configurations.

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.

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).

ChumbOS Launcher is a native C application that is designed to break the shackles of the Chumby, so that not only flash applications can take advantage of the cute little colour screen, touchscreen input, rotary encoder and it's majestic Chumby Button. By the way, not that it had too many shackles, don't get me wrong, but the limitation of using only flash widgets on a device having the horse power of a 450MHz full blown computer, seems to me, a bit of a waste and just a bit annoying. So, what does this application do? It enables you to design a simple Graphical User Interface (GUI) which can start and stop other applications on the Chumby.

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)

Eclipse Configuration Management and Launcher.

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

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.

This project is to create a game server launcher, for games like Quake3 and possibly direct play games such as Age of Empires. This program is to be run as a background process and launch the game server much like HEAT used to work. Currently working on a

A launcher and tool for Half-life and mods to handle multiple players config files.

Hashdot: Java-platform script launcher

Hide and Run is an application launcher for windows. It can run an application hidden. It can run a console application with hidden console.

Java JNI Launcher and Service Controller is a project to create a suite of Java virtural machine launcher tools. No more long complicated command line's to run your Java application

SWAL is a program that can launch as a service (or standalone) and monitor other services and control other programs. Written in C++ and might have some .NET components (planning on a linux port)

In the wake of many program launchers, for windows ... this is my own program launcher for windows. It mainly funcations by using the startmenu shortcuts and program file shortcuts. It uses C heavily ( in fact completely except for the batch files) .

Keyboard-based non-intrusive visual launcher for Linux. Give some use to the useless Win**** key.