New version of xstarter is available (v0.7.0). It adds one useful feature: you can now provide arguments to the application. It works for GUI and terminal programs alike. This allows to start a program like this: surf xstarter.org
(GUI) or e.g. emacs -nw -Q
.
If the number of search results is equal to 1, you can provide arguments the selected application should be started with, e.g. surf xstarter.org
. You can provide multiple arguments, e.g. emacs -nw -Q
. You can select the application you want to provide arguments for by pressing Tab
key This feature works both with GUI (press Enter to start) and terminal applications (press C-o to start)
It is available on AUR You can also get get DEB and RPM packages Alternatively, it can be easily compiled from source code