Features

• Clean, simple interface that works on various terminals
• Ability to search for applications using environment variables (e.g. $PATH) and user-provided list of directories
• It can be configured to launch via a key-binding
• It can optionally open an application in terminal (see key shortcuts)
• It allows providing arguments to applications (see key shortcuts)
• Remembers previously launched applications allowing to find them more quickly
• Fuzzy search (parts of the query can be separated with a space)
• Applications can be launched with 1, 2, ..., 0 keys, depending on their position in the search results
• Fast, uses cache by default
• Easy to configure using a single text file
• Able to run an application and detach it from terminal (e.g. xstarter -e firefox)
• it can provide contents of its cache to outside programs (xstarter -P)