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Ask HN: Are There Any Application Launchers that are Terminal Emulator?

1 pointsby barrettondricka4 months ago
Application launchers should be terminal emulators.<p>I am a huge fan of Spotlight, Raycast, Albert, etc.<p>But they all have some kind of problem, like not being on that platform, or being proprietary, or being a nightmare to modify.<p>99% of the tools I use (calculator, dictionary) already exist on the command line, except they look ugly and are nowhere close to being &quot;out of the box.&quot;<p>If one were to add good opening&#x2F;hiding shortcuts, window size, suggestions, and a shell config to a terminal emulator it would be a perfect launcher app.<p>I know I am doing the typical &quot;FOSS devs please do it for me&quot; request, but I am considering doing it myself, unless someone already went down that rabbit hole before me.

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swah4 months ago
They exist on Raycast too, what are you missing?
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