Emacs completion for launching Linux desktop apps.
16 Mar 2016I'd like to highlight the new command counsel-linux-app
that I
recently added to the counsel
package:
This command looks through your /usr/share/applications/*.desktop
and offers to launch them, just like the launcher that you normally
get when you press the super key. My current system is Ubuntu, and the
launcher here is really horrible, so I'm glad to have a much faster
and reliable replacement.
Here's another screenshot, I open the keyboard settings quite often: