A focused launcher for your desktop — native, fast, extensible - vicinaehq/vicinae

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Vicinae is a high-performance desktop launcher built with C++ and Qt, designed as an alternative to Raycast. It offers keyboard-first access to system actions, file search across millions of files, clipboard history, calculator, emoji picker, and extensibility through React/TypeScript extensions. The launcher includes Raycast compatibility for reusing existing extensions and targets developers and power users seeking fast, native performance without Electron overhead.

vicinaehq/vicinae: A focused launcher for your desktop — native, fast, extensible

<p>Raycast for Linux? Hell yeah! And it’s already on the <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vicinae" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">aur</a> too!
Thank you!</p>
