acidlaunch README: Installation: Your standard affair: ./configure make switch to root make install You need gdk-pixbuf and libxml2 - these are all in Debian (sid), which is what i build on. Configuration: Look in ~/.acidlaunch - it should be pretty straight-forward. The core config file (config.xml) is, as the filename suggests, an XML file. This means you can put in XML-style comments (), and it makes my job as a coder much easier. XML is cool :) The basic idea is that you configure app launch buttons with an icon, a command to run, and a description (which will be shown then the launcher is mouse-overed). Launchers can be grouped into tabs, which are like "pages" of launchers - you can switch between tabs using the A and Z keys. The config file is automatically checked for changes (and reloaded if any are found) every 5 seconds. The only config change that isn't picked up dynamically is whether or not acidlaunch should run in withdrawn mode (see section for Blackbox users below). Use: Run it somewhere :) Keys: a and z to flip between launcher tabs, esc to quit drag the window around using your wm's drag key (eg: alt) Blackbox users: You can run acidlaunch in your blackbox slit :) Simply edit the config file, find the tags and set the value to true, like this: true Copyright: acidlaunch is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). Basically, you can use acidlaunch for whatever you like, and include it in other products regardless of their license, but any changes made to the acidlaunch code itself must be made available under the terms of the LGPL.