zlaunch

A fast application launcher and window switcher for Linux Wayland, built with GPUI.

Website · Documentation

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Demo video

zlaunch.mp4

Features

• Application launching — Fuzzy search through desktop entries with icons
• Window switching — Switch between open windows (Hyprland, Niri, KWin)
• Calculator — Evaluate math expressions and copy the result to clipboard
• Web search — Search Google, DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, YouTube, and more
• Emoji picker — Searchable emoji grid
• Clipboard history — Browse and paste from clipboard history
• AI mode — Query local or cloud LLMs with streaming responses
• Theming — 15 bundled themes plus custom theme support
• Daemon architecture — Runs in the background for instant response

Installation

Arch Linux

Available on the AUR as zlaunch-bin or zlaunch-git.

Nix / NixOS

{
  inputs = {
    zlaunch.url = "github:zortax/zlaunch/0.5.0";
  };
}

The package is available as zlaunch.packages.${pkgs.system}.default. A Home Manager module is available as zlaunch.homeManagerModules.default (for details see Installation Instructions).

Building from source

cargo build --release

If you have Nix installed, you can use nix develop for a preconfigured dev shell with all dependencies.

Quick Start

zlaunch          # Start the daemon
zlaunch toggle   # Toggle the launcher (bind this to a key)

See the documentation for configuration, theming, keybindings, and more.

License

MIT