Open Source C Launchers

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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)

TAL/wm is a Tiling Application Launcher/window manager for X. Currently TAL/wm is based loosely on the dynamic window manager (dwm) code. The goal is to be even more minimal and equally as customizable. TAL/wm is no longer maintained, and should be treat