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 4.21.1 released (2026/03/29 14:32)xfce4-appfinder 4.21.1 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/4.21/xfce4-appfinder-4.21.1.tar.xz https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/4.21/xfce4-appfinder-4.21.1.tar.xz?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/4.21/xfce4-appfinder-4.21.1.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 4.21.1 ======================== Please note that this is a development release. - Rename bookmarks to favorites - Avoid crash when resetting items frecency - Add Name field and column to Custom Actions tab - Add merge request template - build: Fix typo in optimization level - search: Only fuzzy search by app name and command - fuzzy search: Optimize - Correctly load symbolic icons - Add option to clear frecency history (#102) - Add css class for easier theming (#107) - Make item description slightly transparent (#99) - README.md: Add uninstall info - Update README after switchover to meson - Remove autotools build - Translation Updates: Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Asturian, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English (Canada), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tatar, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Vietnamese
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