Application Finder – Best Launchers for Mate and Gnome Session Fallback

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Mate and Gnome Session Fallback desktop environments are almost alike and really lightweight and it is the most preferred desktop environment for me.

Only thing I miss is some way to search installed applications quickly as we do using Unity-Dash. Since going through the Application menu and looking for the long list of installed application takes a long time. Some time it is so difficult to find an application. For example looking for PCManFM file manager, you guys know what I'm talking about. 🙂

Is there any Application Finder which can be installed in Mate and/or Gnome Session Fallback to search and launch installed application quickly?

Best Answer

You probably are seraching for gnome-do application. It's easy simple and cute app for esearching for items, files and other apps in your system, and many other utilities.

Simply install it by sudo apt-get install gnome-do enter image description here

You can also give a try for kupfer and synapse

To install Kupfer

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kupfer-team/ppa && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kupfer

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To install Synapse

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:synapse-core/ppa && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install synapse

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