Fsel –. a Rust TUI launcher, fuzzy picker and clipboard browser
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fsel is a terminal app launcher for Linux/*BSD. It also has a dmenu-style mode for piping arbitrary input through it, and a clipboard-history mode with text and image previews, I started it because I started using otterlauncher and needed a tui app laucnher bc otterlauncher was tui, i looked around and nothing was up to par, then i found Gyr, it was the closest thing but it needed sum work so i add the things I needed, and it eventually grew into fsel.its evolved to be more than an app launcher, i use the normal launcher mode for desktop apps, but I also use --dmenu for shell scripts, and it has --cclip for clipboard picker. It can also output selections or app data to stdout/JSON, preserve original indices for scripts, preview clipboard images in supported terminals, and the UI/keybinds/layout are configurable. A lot of the work lately has been making those modes behave consistently across weird Linux/Wayland setups and cleaning up ux.
HN · launched Aug 21, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 0 views
Niche: terminal user interface tools · 86 launches, 2 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a standard Rust TUI utility built using existing crates like ratatui/crossterm with fuzzy matching and system clipboard/desktop file integrations.
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #110 of 119 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 277 days after the earliest competitor.
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