CLUSTER LAUNCHER-WAYLAND-LIGHTWEIGHT · 32 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2020-01-11
Wayland application launchers
This cluster consists of application launchers and launcher-related utilities for the Wayland display protocol on Linux, ranging from minimal searchable programs to feature-rich command palettes. Entries appear across 2019–2026, with a thin distribution where most months have a single entry; the busiest pre-index months are 2025-10 (3 entries) and 2026-07 (5 entries). The traction leaders, veil-host-bin, nimlaunch-bin, and proslenkey, all show 0 stars, indicating early-stage development with limited adoption.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 4 hand-coded · 8 unlabelled
Operator · 12 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 12 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 21sherlock-launcher-bin0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceApplication launcher for Wayland.
- 22xwaylandvideobridge0★14 daysliveopen sourceUtility that allows streaming Wayland windows to X applications.
- 23turbo-chainsaw0★11 mostaleliveopen sourceCustomizable application launcher for Hyprland and other Wayland compositors that opens programs quickly.
- 24catapult0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA Linux app launcher similar to Ulauncher with Wayland support.
- 25peppy0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceLightweight application launcher for Wayland and X11.
- 26fuzzel-noncompliant0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceAn application launcher for wlroots-based Wayland compositors with non-compliant quote argument support.
- 27onagre0★1 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceA general-purpose application launcher for X and Wayland that allows users to quickly start programs.
- 28sirula0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceApp launcher for Wayland that provides a menu to start installed applications.
- 29rmenu0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDynamic menu launcher for Wayland compositors that lets users launch applications from a customizable menu.
- 30fusee-interfacee-tk-bin0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceA modified launcher for Nintendo Switch homebrew that also mounts SD card while in RCM mode.
- 31lavalauncher0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceA simple launcher panel for Wayland compositors, providing a lightweight and minimal application launcher interface.
- 32silo-fossil0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceWayland launcher menu that allows users to quickly start applications from a graphical interface.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.