With Launchy, you can quickly launch your programs, documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!
To install Launchy on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron), you can execute the following steps:
- Installing libqt4-core and libqt4-gui:
sudo apt-get install libqt4-core libqt4-gui - Download deb package of Launchy, and save to your desktop.
- Open you terminal, go to Desktop folder:
cd ~/Desktop - Installing Launchy:
sudo dpkg -i launchy_2.1.1-1_i386.deb - Now you can run Launchy by clicking Applications → Accessories → Launchy.
Launchy screenshot:
Launchy options:
4 responses so far ↓
1 The-Linux-Blog » Blog Archive » How to get Launch to work in Ubuntu Linux // Aug 24, 2008 at 8:15 am
[…] Found a tutorial online that mentions how to do this a different way than I mentioned. Here is a link to the site if my way doesn’t […]
2 dante // Sep 8, 2008 at 9:59 pm
hey thanks for this! very simple and easy to follow!
3 erick // Dec 22, 2008 at 6:31 am
followed your instructions step-by-step and it worked, sweet! thanks
4 Launchy on Linux | tail -f findings.out // Jan 31, 2009 at 8:06 pm
[…] am) a big GNOME-Do fan, I just found that Launchy runs on Linux now. And it works just the same! This post describes how to get it installed on Ubuntu (too bad it isn’t in the repos yet, but it is an easy […]
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