Serve search results and actions to a launcher or desktop widget over a Unix socket.
Limit Needs a frontend such as a launcher; elephant has no window of its own. Must run in the user's environment, not as a system service.
App launcher
2 open-source tools on osfeed do this, in 3 ways. Each entry says how, and where it falls short. Read the tool's page before you rely on it.
Search and launch installed desktop applications, ranked by launch history.
Limit Detects uwsm or app2unit to launch apps.
Search and launch installed desktop applications.
Limit Needs elephant running with the desktopapplications provider installed.
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