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Create Your Ulauncher Extensions

Since Ulauncher v3 (Dev release) you can create your own Ulauncher extensions.

Check out docs.ulauncher.io to find out how.

Ulauncher

It's a fast application launcher for Linux written in Python and uses GTK as a GUI toolkit.

App Search	File Browser	Light Theme

Install for Development

If you just want to use the app see download instructions at ulauncher.io

Dev Requirements

• Docker

• python-distutils-extra

• Application runtime dependencies.
  (You don't have to manually install those if you had already installed Ulauncher)

  sudo apt-get install \
    libkeybinder-3.0-0 \
    libgtk-3-0 \
    gir1.2-gtk-3.0 \
    gir1.2-keybinder-3.0 \
    gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 \
    gir1.2-glib-2.0 \
    gir1.2-notify-0.7 \
    gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 \
    gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1 \
    python-dbus \
    python-levenshtein \
    python-pyinotify \
    python-pysqlite2 \
    python-websocket \
    python-xdg \
    python-distutils-extra
  

Build and Run

1. $ ./build-utils/dev-container.sh will take you into a Docker container from which you can run build and test scripts
2. root@container: # ./build-utils/build-preferences.sh build preferences UI in JS/HTML
3. root@container: # ./test tests runs Python tests
4. $ ./dev-run.sh installs Ulauncher data to ~/.local/share/ulauncher/ and then runs the app

If you have any questions, join chat in Gitter

Known Issues

• inotify watch limit reached
• Can't add or change shortcuts on Ubuntu 14.04

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Want to contribute? See How!

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License

See the LICENSE file for license rights and limitations (GNU GPL v3.0).