Free launch software for linux

X-Launch is a GTK-based skinnable run dialog.
It has bash style autocompletion, skin support, and animations to let you know when a slow application is launching.
It can function like other run dialogs, but you can also tell it to stay resident in memory and hide itself after it launches an application.
X-Launch not only looks better then any other Run dialog, but is more powerful and faster then most. It will manage its own hotkey, so you dont have to have a window manager that supports hotkeys and it doesnt have to launch every time you want to launch an application.
For those of you out there that are avid keyboard users, especially for launching applications, then this program is for you.
Main features:
- Launch applications easily from a command interface
- Fresh looking skinable user interface
- Set a hotkey to bring up the launch window
- Animations to let you know a slow program is launching
- Full command history that has smart sorting (last used, first shown)
- Inline command history, no need for using arrows or tab to select command
- Tab completion for executable file in your path
- Tab completion for directories
- Edit your history easily.
- Configurable behavor after an application is launched.
- Smart app technology that will figure out if you have typed a valid application.

TabLaunch is a simple and lightweight but cool-looking X application launch bar based on YeahLaunch. It displays a user-specified list of applications as tabs along the top of the screen.

The user can specify an x coordinate offset to position the launch bar or right-align it. The launch bar becomes hidden after a specified delay.

Each tab can be displayed as text or an icon. Tabs are "enlarged" or zoomed-in when the mouse is over a tab. Imlib or Imlib2 can be used to show and enlarge icons.

Prelaunch is a utility for the Linux desktop which significantly decrease the time to launch programs.

Pre- launch start the respective program during login not visible to the user. With this trick the real launch needs no time. It is written in C and GTK.

*Prelaunch will work with every desktop environment but only Gnome is supported at the moment (Adding new apps...).

AutoScan is a utility for network exploration.
The objective of the program is to post the list of all equipment connected to the network. A list of ports preset is scanned for each equipment.
Main features:
- Automatic network discovery
- Entire subnets can be scanned simultaneously without human intervention
- Addition time-reality of the new machines put on the network
- Detection of the OS, brand and model known (Possibility to add an unknown equipment in the database)
- Ability to save the network state
- A Samba share browser
- A Nessus client
- For each machine, one can launch a script (ex:ping, nmap) and display the result
- For each port, one can launch an application (ex:rdesktop for the terminal server service)

Luminance Panel is a lightweight GTK 2.0 panel application.
It provides a basic icon menu, a group of panel icons, a taskbar and a clock.
The intent of the Luminance Panel is to create an easy to use, lightweight application.
The core of the code was based on the fbpanel, which was in turn based on fspanel.
Installing:
./configure
make
su (if you have not already done so)
make install
Enhancements:
- Fixed initial icon display problems
- Fixed logout button to exit instead of a nasty killall hack
- Fixed menu so that applications actually launch

Eunit project is an Erlang test suite tool, inspired by agile development ideas.
Usage:
Launch example unit test with:
erl -config sys.config
and then
eunit:run([eunit_examples], {suffix, "_test"}).
Enhancements:
- This release is a complete rewrite.
- Writing unit tests should now be simpler than with the previous version.
- This release can also be used with the Aegis configuration management system for continuous integration.

Kudev is a system tool, written in python, which helps you create and (will help you) manage your udev rules.

To launch it unpack the archive and launch sudo python ./launch.py in your favorite console.