Top 15 grun Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

gRun is a GTK based Run dialog that closely resembles the Windows Run dialog, just like xexec. It has a intelligent history mechanism and a dual level fork() mechanism for launching the application in its own process. gRun also has support for launching console mode application in an XTerm as well as associations for file types.

gRun is much more powerful than xexec, looks a lot better, and has the big advantage that you can start typing a command without having to mouse-click into the text field.

1. LaunchBar

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2. Butler

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3. kupfer

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5. Promptu

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12. sTabLauncher

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13. Hangar

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15. Hoekey

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