xfce4-appfinder - Application Finder
The Application Finder is a program to find and launch installed applications on your system, and quickly execute commands. It does this by searching your file system for .desktop files, and displays a categorized list of all the GUI applications on your system.
Tip: You can use the Application Finder to quickly add launchers to your panel - simply drag an item onto your desired panel and it will automatically create a launcher for that application.
General
- Usage – Overview of the Application Finder
- Preferences – Configure the behaviour of the application and create custom actions
- Custom Action Examples – Examples for custom actions
Debugging Support
xfce4-appfinder currently supports three different levels of debugging support,
which can be setup using the configure flag –enable-debug (check the output of configure –help):
| Argument | Description |
|---|---|
| `yes` | This is the default for Git snapshot builds. It adds all kinds of checks to the code, and is therefore likely to run slower. Use this for development of xfce4-appfinder and locating bugs in xfce4-appfinder. |
| `minimum` | This is the default for release builds. This is the recommended behaviour. |
| `no` | Disables all sanity checks. Don't use this unless you know exactly what you do. |
Latest Release
- xfce4-appfinder 4.21.0 released (2025/03/23 10:36)xfce4-appfinder 4.21.0 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/4.21/xfce4-appfinder-4.21.0.tar.xz https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/4.21/xfce4-appfinder-4.21.0.tar.xz?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/4.21/xfce4-appfinder-4.21.0.tar.xz?sha256 What is xfce4-appfinder? ======================== The Xfce application finder is a program that searches your file system for .desktop files, and displays a categorized list of all the GUI applications on your system. Website: https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/start Release notes for 4.21.0 ======================== Please note that this is a development release. - Replace deprecated exo with libxfce4ui 4.21.0 - Remove manual registration of resources - meson: Add missing file to EXTRA_DIST - Hide dash from list view when comment is empty - build: Automate copyright year management - meson: Check for headers - Fix potential dereference of NULL - Add support to Meson - Translation Updates: Albanian, Basque, Catalan, Danish, Greek, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovak
Source Code Repository
Reporting Bugs
- Reporting Bugs – Open bug reports and how to report new bugs