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00:00What's up friends, I have a piece of software that I install on almost any of
00:06my Linux computers. It helps opening any application simply by keyboard shortcut
00:13then typing some of the letters of that application. It's like Rofi and it's a
00:21little bit like probably more beautiful in its graphics. You can simply use it or
00:29use Rofi or any other alternative. This application exists in the AUR. We can
00:36install it using two methods. The first one is using an AUR helper which can
00:42reduce the steps of the installation and make them only one simply by typing yay
00:48for example if you're using yay as an AUR helper dash uppercase s and the
00:54application name. In our case it's uLauncher. You press enter. Since I don't
01:00have yay installed it will not work as you can see. You can use Paroo. I don't also
01:08have it here. It will do nothing or any other similar AUR helper as long as the
01:16command is the same. It may be a little different. You need to know what is the
01:20command to install any application using your favorite AUR helper to install
01:26this piece of software. The manual way which I'm gonna use here is simply by
01:32running git. In case you have git I will check if I do. Enter. Yes I do. So let me
01:38clear out the screen and then the first command should be git clone and then
01:44https colon double forward slash AUR dot arch linux dot org slash uLauncher dot git
02:07The next command should be cd to the application name since it makes a
02:13directory with that name. And then the next command afterwards is make pkg dash si
02:22and then pkg build and then like this y enter okay password again
02:42password again and then y and enter
03:05password again y and enter and the installation is done
03:12the first run the first run of the application you go for it you look for
03:17it like for example should be somewhere here here it is you run it if you are
03:26using Wayland you may face some issues running this application since it's not
03:32ready yet for it you may need some extra configurations but in case you don't want
03:38to have any hassle with it simply use xorg especially on arch linux the session of xorg still exists and
03:47you can use it simply there to spawn or to have the window of uLauncher to have the window of uLauncher
03:56to have the window of uLauncher simply press I mean the keyboard shortcut shortcut is control plus space and here it is
04:05and here it is you can go to the settings and then there is a there is a configuration that I always like to enable which is launch at login
04:17I enabled it and then anything else it is up to you you can change the theme for example
04:27let's check how it would look like here it is yeah I guess you can have some
04:34extensions you have like you can add your own and stuff like that shortcuts
04:42preferences which was open for us they have this piece of software has a service that you can configure
04:55which is uLauncher which is uLauncher which is uLauncher which is uLauncher which is uLauncher which is uLauncher which is uLauncher
05:02we can check the status
05:04oh wait
05:06I forgot
05:08I forgot
05:09like this
05:10I guess it's for the user not the system so it should be user
05:23yes
05:37so
05:38our service is enabled per user for this piece of software you can use it simply by for example if I want to open the browser
05:48the browser which yeah I have a gnomes browser I didn't install any other one you can simply type b or web and it's gonna give you the application
06:02there are other options you can simply explore the let's see if
06:09it gives you sometimes the there are other options that this piece of software gives like for example calculations you can look online for stuff I guess I don't know maybe Wikipedia
06:23enter
06:25enter
06:26enter
06:27no
06:28let's go to it like this
06:30or alt plus one
06:32oh yeah
06:37having this prefix makes you look for any term on Wikipedia let's type for example Arch Linux
06:44so this is one of the functionalities of this piece of software that you can simply use
06:51which is looking online for some of the stuff that you're looking for you can see here that it gave us the page official Wikipedia page of Arch Linux okay I guess that was it for this piece of software
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07:19cheers