Slingscold is a lightweight application launcher similar to Launchpad in macOS X. It is also Wayland compatible.
This project was originally forked from Slingshot from the elementary team:
- Install dependencies:
- For Ubuntu:
$ sudo apt-get install cmake libgee-0.8-dev libgnome-menu-3-dev cdbs valac libvala-*-dev libglib2.0-dev libwnck-3-dev libgtk-3-dev
- For Fedora:
$ sudo dnf install cmake libgee-devel gnome-menus-devel cdbs vala libvala-devel glib-devel libwnck-devel gtk3-devel
- Create a build folder:
$ mkdir build
- Compile Slingscold:
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make
- Install Slingscold in the system:
$ sudo make install
Once installed set shortcut key to access Slingscold.
- System -> Preferences -> Hardware -> Keyboard Shortcuts > click Add
- Name: Slingscold
- Command: slingscold
Now assign it a shortcut key, such as CTRL+SPACE.
Note: Some themes don't have the 'application-default-icon'. Slingscold needs to have this icon, so please download it from the FlatWoken icon pack and execute the following commands:
# cp application-default-icon.svg /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/
# gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/hicolor
Version 1.1
- Clean all code to bring up correct names
- New revamped icon in some different resolutions
- Removed libunique dependency (for Wayland compatibility)
- Several code improvements and bug fixes
- Ported to GTK+ 3.0