I tend to use Gnome Do[1] as my launcher. I haven't observed any noticeable battery drain (on Arch) despite the fact that it runs in background. There's a neat

I tend to use Gnome Do[1] as my launcher. I haven't observed any noticeable battery drain (on Arch) despite the fact that it runs in background. There's a neat comparison of different launchers available on Wikipedia[2]. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Do https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Do 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_desktop_application_launchers#Linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_desktop_applicat... As someone mentioned previously the Alt + F2 (or F3) works well enough in XFCE most of time. I'll give Cerebro a try...