I've been using quick launchers like kupfer or ulauncher for a while, but I needed to switch to something else because kupfer tends to crash from time to time (Ubuntu 20.04) and ulauncher is a memory hog with lots of plugins ( https://github.com/Ulauncher/Ulauncher/issues/590 ). I've looked around and rofi looks like a great little launcher - with the added bonus that it runs only when you launch it (it's not resident in memory). For best features it should be installed from git, not apt (instructions here: https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/blob/next/INSTALL.md ). First prepare the build environment. You'll need to enable deb-src in your /etc/apt/sources.list for this to work. Make sure you have the correct distribution (in case you did a do-release-upgrade you may have wrong deb-src entries commented out): https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/537537/how-to-put-some-source-uris-in-your-sources-list sudo apt-get build-dep rofi git clone https://github.com/davatoriu