this episode of twill is sponsored by digitalocean and by bit warden recently i made a video talking about NUMBER_TOKEN unknown kde plasma features on my channel which of course i'll link to in the show notes and in this video i talked about kroner which is an awesome app launcher as well as doing many other things it can do like calculations and all sorts of stuff but i received some comments from some people talking about wanting to have something like that on other des so today on twill i want to show you u-launcher u-launcher is an application launcher for linux written in python and uses gtk it has a lot of different features like the app search for certain launching applications and it uses a fuzzy matching search which means that it will try to figure out what you're trying to open even if you spell the app name wrong that kind of thing also there's a calculator a file browser mode you can also extend its functionality with extensions you can have customizable shortcuts and there are even custom color themes to be able to change how it looks on your setup there are also other options inside of the launcher that there's many many things you can check out i just wanted to bring into your attention because it is a pretty cool application there are some other applications like that because app launchers has been around for a very long time so there's you know you launcher there's k runner there's many more and maybe it'd be a cool video for me to do that let me know in the comments below if you'd like to see a video showing off all the different app launchers options on linux and if you'd like to learn more about u launcher specifically i'll have links in the show notes up next in the show we have a really interesting announcement from manjaro and vivaldi and that is that vivaldi is now becoming the default browser for a community edition of manjaro which is manjaro cinnamon so manjaro cinnamon was using firefox but they're now switching to the chromium-based vivaldi for a lot of reasons there's a lot of cool features in there and they say that the manjaro says that they are hoping that this move gives vivaldi the attention that it deserves and vivaldi is really cool so i do think it does deserve some attention because they have a lot of interesting customizations and functionality such as they have many features like tab grouping or tab stacking split screen support a built-in mail client which some people argue is even better than thunderbird i'm not saying that but some people have argued that also it has built has built in gesture support which these gestures are also customizable which is really cool and vivaldi also has many privacy controls such as anti-tracking and ad blocking by default which is a very very appealing thing for many people now linux users are also typically fans of customizing their systems and also vivaldi has taken note of this by making it possible to customize all sorts of different options you can create unique workflows with customizable shortcuts gestures as i mentioned customizable menus also this thing called command change command chains i don't know why i can't say chains command chains especially suited for keyboard based browsing so there's a lot of
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