---
title: The launcher
description: Yabar's launcher finds windows on every space, stacks, scratchpads, apps and commands.
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/yabar/moving-around/launcher
---

# The launcher
```sh
yabar launcher
```

![The launcher over a desktop, listing windows with their space and stack badges, a stack, an app and commands](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/yabar/images/shots/launcher/launcher.jpg)
One search over:
- **Windows** on every space, with badges for their space, their place in a stack, a scratchpad, attention.
- **Stacks**, one row each.
- **Scratchpads**, with yabai's scripting addition.
- **Apps** in `/Applications`, `~/Applications` and macOS's own; a running one is marked.
- **Yabar's commands**: go to attention, label this space, settings, indicator styles, re-arrange as columns.
- **yabai's commands** by name: float, zoom, split, balance, mirror, rotate, layouts, move to space N.


| Key    | Does                                                                                                                                                              |
|--------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Enter  | Go to the window (and its space), show a scratchpad, run a command, or open the app (its window when it runs). With nothing matching, open the best matching app. |
| ⌘Enter | Open a new copy of the app (`open -n`).                                                                                                                           |
| `>`    | Run the rest as a yabai command: `> window --toggle float`.                                                                                                       |
| ↑ ↓    | Move the selection.                                                                                                                                               |
| Esc    | Close, and give focus back.                                                                                                                                       |

Results are matched fuzzily and ranked by match, then by how often you pick each. yabai commands run after focus is
back on your window, so they act on it and not on the launcher.
`yabar launcher` starts Yabar first when it isn't running.