diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6c7c6c5..34d9682 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 !waybar/
 !zathura/
 !mimeapps.list
-!fuzzel/
 !fish/
 !packages
 !brave-flags.conf
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 64eb05e..afcc75c 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -19,9 +19,6 @@
 [submodule "btop/catppuccin-btop"]
 	path = btop/catppuccin-btop
 	url = https://github.com/catppuccin/btop.git
-[submodule "fuzzel/catppuccin-fuzzel"]
-	path = fuzzel/catppuccin-fuzzel
-	url = https://github.com/catppuccin/fuzzel.git
 [submodule "nvim"]
 	path = nvim
 	url = https://git.narl.io/nvrl/nvim-config.git
diff --git a/fluxo/config.toml b/fluxo/config.toml
index 39f8447..1674203 100644
--- a/fluxo/config.toml
+++ b/fluxo/config.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 # marquee ticker firing twice a second, all feeding a bar that does not exist.
 
 [general]
-menu_command = "fuzzel --dmenu --prompt \"$FLUXO_PROMPT\""
+menu_command = "takemi-dmenu --prompt \"$FLUXO_PROMPT\""
 
 [signals]
 network = 1
diff --git a/fuzzel/catppuccin-fuzzel b/fuzzel/catppuccin-fuzzel
deleted file mode 160000
index 0af0e26..0000000
--- a/fuzzel/catppuccin-fuzzel
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 0af0e26901b60ada4b20522df739f032797b07c3
diff --git a/fuzzel/fuzzel.ini b/fuzzel/fuzzel.ini
deleted file mode 100644
index 8a23f12..0000000
--- a/fuzzel/fuzzel.ini
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-include=~/.config/fuzzel/takemi.ini
-
-[main]
-# JetBrainsMono to match Theme.fontMono, so the launcher and the bar are
-# visibly the same typeface.
-font=JetBrainsMono Nerd Font:size=14
-terminal=alacritty
-dpi-aware=no
-
-width=45
-lines=8
-horizontal-pad=20
-vertical-pad=20
-inner-pad=10
-
-prompt="   "
-
-show-actions=no
-layer=overlay
diff --git a/fuzzel/takemi.ini b/fuzzel/takemi.ini
deleted file mode 100644
index bcfb587..0000000
--- a/fuzzel/takemi.ini
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-# Takemi — matched to ~/.config/quickshell/config/Theme.qml,
-# ~/.config/alacritty/takemi.toml and ~/.config/nvim/lua/takemi.lua.
-#
-# Near-black ground, white text, crimson as the only saturated colour. The
-# selection is a solid crimson block with the text punched out of it in black,
-# which is the same "active" signal the bar and the terminal use.
-
-[colors]
-# Flat and fully opaque. The Persona surfaces are ink on ground — translucency
-# and blur read as a different design language, so the alpha stays at ff.
-background=0a0a0cff
-text=c8c8ceff
-input=ffffffff
-placeholder=6b6b70ff
-prompt=ff2d40ff
-
-# Fuzzy-match characters in an unselected row: crimson, since they are the
-# reason the row is on screen at all.
-match=ff2d40ff
-
-selection=ff2d40ff
-selection-text=000000ff
-# White rather than black, so the matched characters still read as marked once
-# the row is already crimson.
-selection-match=ffffffff
-
-# Deliberately the same as the background — hides the match counter.
-counter=0a0a0cff
-
-border=ff2d40ff
-
-[border]
-# Square. Every corner in this style is either a right angle or a hard chamfer;
-# nothing in the shell is rounded.
-radius=0
-# Theme.stroke.
-width=2
diff --git a/hypr/lua/apps.lua b/hypr/lua/apps.lua
index 47f2412..fced52e 100644
--- a/hypr/lua/apps.lua
+++ b/hypr/lua/apps.lua
@@ -3,13 +3,21 @@
 return {
     terminal = "alacritty",
     fileManager = "nautilus",
-    menu = "fuzzel",
+    -- The launcher lives in the Quickshell process (quickshell/launcher/), so
+    -- the bind toggles it over IPC instead of spawning anything. Nothing to
+    -- start up means it is on screen on the same frame as the keypress.
+    menu = "qs ipc call shell launcher",
 
-    -- clipboard history picker
-    clipboard = "cliphist list | fuzzel --dmenu | cliphist decode | wl-copy",
+    -- Clipboard history. Opens the launcher already in its ":" mode, which
+    -- reads cliphist itself and copies the chosen entry back — so the picker is
+    -- the same window, with the same keys, as everything else.
+    clipboard = "qs ipc call shell prompt :",
 
-    -- pdf picker
-    pdfs = "pdfs-prompt --dmenu --menu 'fuzzel --dmenu --width 60'",
+    -- Proton Drive search. --fzf re-queries the daemon on every keystroke, so
+    -- results appear as you type; a dmenu could only filter a list it was
+    -- handed once, which made searching a two-step. It spawns its own terminal
+    -- (class pdfs-prompt, floated in lua/rules/windows.lua).
+    pdfs = "pdfs-prompt --fzf",
 
     -- bluetooth menu
     bluetooth = "fluxo bt menu",
diff --git a/hypr/lua/rules/layers.lua b/hypr/lua/rules/layers.lua
index 53080f8..b83ca94 100644
--- a/hypr/lua/rules/layers.lua
+++ b/hypr/lua/rules/layers.lua
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 -- https://wiki.hypr.land/Configuring/Basics/Window-Rules/#layer-rules
 --
--- Quickshell surfaces (bar, popouts, OSD) and the fuzzel launcher. Note
+-- Quickshell surfaces: the bar, popouts, the OSD and the launcher. Note
 -- decoration.blur is off in lua/look.lua, so these only take effect if blur is
 -- switched back on.
 
-for _, namespace in ipairs({ "bottom", "top", "launcher" }) do
+for _, namespace in ipairs({ "bottom", "top", "takemi-launcher" }) do
     hl.layer_rule({
         match = { namespace = namespace },
         blur = true,
diff --git a/hypr/scripts/powermenu.sh b/hypr/scripts/powermenu.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index f6c40b2..0000000
--- a/hypr/scripts/powermenu.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-options="Shutdown\nReboot\nLock\nLogout"
-selected=$(echo -e $options | fuzzel --dmenu --prompt='Power:')
-
-case $selected in
-    "Shutdown")
-        systemctl poweroff
-        ;;
-    "Reboot")
-        systemctl reboot
-        ;;
-    "Lock")
-        hyprlock
-        ;;
-    "Logout")
-        hyprctl dispatch exit
-        ;;
-esac
diff --git a/packages b/packages
index fb58aa4..c04ae2e 100644
--- a/packages
+++ b/packages
@@ -178,7 +178,6 @@ fribidi
 fuse-common
 fuse2
 fuse3
-fuzzel
 fzf
 gawk
 gc
diff --git a/quickshell/README.md b/quickshell/README.md
index 5126c24..9ac12c1 100644
--- a/quickshell/README.md
+++ b/quickshell/README.md
@@ -199,8 +199,9 @@ Persona 3's blue and nothing else needs touching.
   `fish_frozen_theme.fish` that fish 4.3 generated on upgrade. The prompt arrow
   is white and turns crimson on a non-zero exit — the shell's one "wrong"
   signal, and so the one place that earns the accent.
-- **Fuzzel** — `fuzzel/takemi.ini`, selected by the `include` in `fuzzel.ini`.
-  Square corners rather than the stock radius, and a fully opaque ground.
+- **The launcher** — no external theming to keep in step, because it is part of
+  this shell (`launcher/`). Fuzzel is gone; `takemi-dmenu` stands in for
+  `fuzzel --dmenu` where a script needs a picker.
 - **No glass anywhere.** Alacritty is `opacity = 1.0, blur = false`, and
   Hyprland's `decoration:blur` is disabled with both opacities at `1.0`. Blur is
   the signature of the frosted-glass look, which is the opposite of flat ink on
diff --git a/quickshell/bar/Sigil.qml b/quickshell/bar/Sigil.qml
index 5361b1b..10c00ac 100644
--- a/quickshell/bar/Sigil.qml
+++ b/quickshell/bar/Sigil.qml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ BarPill {
     lean: Theme.skew
     implicitWidth: Theme.barHeight + contentPad
 
-    onClicked: Actions.launch("fuzzel")
+    onClicked: Actions.toggleLauncher()
     onRightClicked: Actions.reloadShell()
 
     // The wordmark. Was the Death arcana skull (nf-md-skull, U+F068C) — a
diff --git a/quickshell/launcher/Launcher.qml b/quickshell/launcher/Launcher.qml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1794ff9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/quickshell/launcher/Launcher.qml
@@ -0,0 +1,526 @@
+import QtQuick
+import Quickshell
+import Quickshell.Wayland
+import Quickshell.Widgets
+import "root:/config"
+import "root:/components"
+import "root:/popouts"
+import "root:/services"
+
+// The launcher. One input, one list, and a small amount of grammar.
+//
+// TYPING is always typing. Navigation lives on the arrows and on Ctrl+J/K so
+// that nothing you can type is ever stolen from you — except in select mode,
+// which you enter deliberately (the first arrow press does it) and which hands
+// h/j/k/l over to navigation until you press Escape or Backspace. That is the
+// compromise the vim keys need: a launcher whose input eats `j` is a launcher
+// you cannot use to find Jellyfin.
+//
+// The other half of the grammar is the argument. Type a URL and the list turns
+// into "open this with…", already sorted so the system default is row zero —
+// so the fast path is type, Enter, done, and the slow path is one arrow key.
+// Tab pins whatever is selected, which does the same thing for arguments that
+// do not announce themselves as arguments.
+PanelWindow {
+    id: root
+
+    required property var modelData
+    screen: modelData
+
+    readonly property bool open: Actions.launcherOpen
+    visible: root.open || closeAnim.running
+
+    WlrLayershell.layer: WlrLayer.Overlay
+    WlrLayershell.namespace: "takemi-launcher"
+    WlrLayershell.keyboardFocus: root.open
+        ? WlrKeyboardFocus.Exclusive
+        : WlrKeyboardFocus.None
+
+    anchors { top: true; bottom: true; left: true; right: true }
+    color: "transparent"
+    exclusionMode: ExclusionMode.Ignore
+
+    // ----------------------------------------------------------------- state
+    property string query: ""
+    property var pinned: null          // an index item, frozen as the verb
+    property bool selectMode: false
+    property int selected: 0
+
+    readonly property int maxRows: 8
+    readonly property int rowHeight: 46
+
+    // --------------------------------------------------------------- grammar
+    readonly property string prefix: root.pinned ? "" : root.query.slice(0, 1)
+    // A dmenu request owns the window outright — there is no app search to
+    // fall back to, because the caller is waiting on a choice from its own
+    // list.
+    readonly property string mode: Apps.dmenuActive ? "dmenu"
+        : root.prefix === ">" ? "shell"
+        : root.prefix === "=" ? "calc"
+        : root.prefix === ":" ? "clip"
+        : "app"
+
+    readonly property bool prefixed: root.mode === "shell"
+        || root.mode === "calc" || root.mode === "clip"
+
+    readonly property string body: root.prefixed
+        ? root.query.slice(1)
+        : root.query
+
+    // With an app pinned, everything you type is the argument. Without one, an
+    // argument only exists if what you typed is self-evidently an object.
+    readonly property string argKind: root.pinned
+        ? (Apps.classify(root.body) || "text")
+        : Apps.classify(root.body)
+
+    readonly property string arg: root.mode !== "app" || root.body.trim() === ""
+        ? ""
+        : (root.pinned || root.argKind !== "")
+            ? Apps.normalizeArg(root.body, root.argKind)
+            : ""
+
+    // What is left to match app names against. When the whole query has been
+    // claimed as an argument there is nothing left, and the list falls back to
+    // "every app, best handler first".
+    readonly property string term: root.mode !== "app" || root.pinned || root.arg !== ""
+        ? ""
+        : root.body
+
+    readonly property var results: {
+        if (!root.open) return [];
+
+        if (root.mode === "calc") {
+            const v = Apps.calc(root.body);
+            if (v === "") return [];
+            return [{ kind: "calc", name: v, sub: "copy to clipboard",
+                      icon: "accessories-calculator", value: v }];
+        }
+
+        if (root.mode === "dmenu") return Apps.searchDmenu(root.body);
+        if (root.mode === "clip") return Apps.searchClips(root.body);
+
+        if (root.mode === "shell") {
+            if (root.body.trim() === "") return [];
+            return [
+                { kind: "shell", name: root.body, sub: "run", icon: "utilities-terminal" },
+                { kind: "shellterm", name: root.body, sub: "run in a terminal",
+                  icon: "utilities-terminal" }
+            ];
+        }
+
+        // Pinned: the verb is decided, so the list narrows to that app and the
+        // things it can do — which is where "Brave, but a private window"
+        // lives. Same list, one step further in.
+        if (root.pinned) {
+            const id = root.pinned.id;
+            return Apps.index.filter(e => e.id === id)
+                .sort((a, b) => (a.kind === "app" ? 0 : 1) - (b.kind === "app" ? 0 : 1));
+        }
+
+        return Apps.search(root.term, root.arg, root.argKind);
+    }
+
+    onResultsChanged: root.selected = 0
+
+    // Typing the ":" prefix is the other way into the clipboard, and the
+    // history may have moved on since the window opened.
+    onModeChanged: if (root.mode === "clip") Apps.refreshClips()
+    onOpenChanged: {
+        if (root.open) {
+            PopupCoordinator.dismissAll();
+            root.reset();
+            openAnim.restart();
+            input.forceActiveFocus();
+            input.cursorPosition = input.text.length;
+            Apps.refreshClips();
+        } else {
+            // Dismissing a dmenu is a valid answer — an empty one. Without this
+            // the caller blocks until its own timeout.
+            Apps.finishDmenu("");
+            closeAnim.restart();
+        }
+    }
+
+    function reset(): void {
+        root.query = Actions.launcherSeed;
+        root.pinned = null;
+        root.selectMode = false;
+        root.selected = 0;
+    }
+
+    function move(delta: int): void {
+        const n = root.results.length;
+        if (n === 0) return;
+        root.selected = (root.selected + delta + n) % n;
+        list.positionViewAtIndex(root.selected, ListView.Contain);
+    }
+
+    function pin(): void {
+        const item = root.results[root.selected];
+        if (!item || (item.kind !== "app" && item.kind !== "action")) return;
+        root.pinned = item;
+        root.query = "";
+        root.selectMode = false;
+        input.forceActiveFocus();
+    }
+
+    function unpin(): void {
+        if (!root.pinned) return;
+        root.query = root.pinned.name.split(" · ")[0];
+        root.pinned = null;
+        input.forceActiveFocus();
+    }
+
+    function activate(): void {
+        const item = root.results[root.selected];
+        if (!item) return;
+
+        switch (item.kind) {
+        case "dmenu": Apps.finishDmenu(item.name); break;
+        case "clip": Apps.pasteClip(item); break;
+        case "calc": Apps.copy(item.value); break;
+        case "shell": Apps.runShell(root.body, false); break;
+        case "shellterm": Apps.runShell(root.body, true); break;
+        default: Apps.launch(item, root.arg); break;
+        }
+        Actions.closeLauncher();
+    }
+
+    // -------------------------------------------------------------- backdrop
+    Rectangle {
+        id: backdrop
+        anchors.fill: parent
+        color: Theme.alpha(Theme.base, 0.72)
+        opacity: 0
+
+        TapHandler { onTapped: Actions.closeLauncher() }
+    }
+
+    // ----------------------------------------------------------------- panel
+    Item {
+        id: shell
+
+        width: 680
+        height: header.height + divider.height + listBox.height + hint.height
+        anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
+        // Sits above centre. A launcher pinned to the exact middle of a 1440p
+        // screen puts the list below the eyeline and the input above it; the
+        // input is the thing you are looking at.
+        y: parent.height * 0.22
+
+        opacity: 0
+        transform: Translate { id: rise; y: 24 }
+
+        PopoutSurface {
+            anchors.fill: parent
+            tone: root.arg !== "" ? Theme.accent : Theme.primary
+            padding: 0
+            slashWidth: root.arg !== "" ? 8 : 5
+
+            // ------------------------------------------------------- header
+            Item {
+                id: header
+                width: parent.width
+                height: 66
+                anchors.top: parent.top
+
+                Row {
+                    anchors.fill: parent
+                    anchors.leftMargin: Theme.padL
+                    anchors.rightMargin: Theme.padL
+                    spacing: Theme.padM
+
+                    Icon {
+                        anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
+                        text: root.mode === "shell" ? "" : root.mode === "calc" ? "󰃬"
+                            : root.mode === "clip" ? "󰅇"
+                            : root.mode === "dmenu" ? "󰘳"
+                            : root.arg !== "" ? "󰏌" : "󰍉"
+                        color: root.arg !== "" ? Theme.accent : Theme.primary
+                        font.pixelSize: Theme.fsTitle
+                    }
+
+                    // The pin chip. Once this is on screen the input means
+                    // "argument", and the chip is the only thing saying so.
+                    Item {
+                        anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
+                        visible: root.pinned !== null
+                        width: visible ? chipText.width + Theme.padM * 2 : 0
+                        height: 26
+
+                        Skew {
+                            anchors.fill: parent
+                            color: Theme.accent
+                        }
+
+                        Text {
+                            id: chipText
+                            anchors.centerIn: parent
+                            text: root.pinned ? root.pinned.name.toUpperCase() : ""
+                            color: Theme.treatmentDestructiveText
+                            font.family: Theme.fontMono
+                            font.pixelSize: Theme.fsMicro
+                            font.weight: Font.Bold
+                            font.letterSpacing: 2
+                            renderType: Text.NativeRendering
+                        }
+                    }
+
+                    TextInput {
+                        id: input
+                        anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
+                        width: parent.width - x
+                        text: root.query
+                        onTextChanged: root.query = text
+                        color: root.selectMode ? Theme.muted : Theme.text
+                        font.family: Theme.fontMono
+                        font.pixelSize: Theme.fsLarge
+                        selectionColor: Theme.accent
+                        selectedTextColor: Theme.ink
+                        clip: true
+                        focus: true
+                        renderType: Text.NativeRendering
+
+                        // Ours must run before TextInput's, or select mode's
+                        // h/j/k/l would be typed into the field before we ever
+                        // saw them.
+                        Keys.priority: Keys.BeforeItem
+                        Keys.onPressed: event => root.handleKey(event)
+
+                        Text {
+                            anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
+                            visible: input.text === ""
+                            text: root.pinned ? "argument…"
+                                : root.mode === "shell" ? "command…"
+                                : root.mode === "calc" ? "expression…"
+                                : root.mode === "clip" ? "clipboard history…"
+                                : root.mode === "dmenu"
+                                    ? (Apps.dmenuPrompt || "choose…")
+                                    : "search, or paste a link"
+                            color: Theme.muted
+                            font: input.font
+                            renderType: Text.NativeRendering
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+
+                // Count, right-aligned over the input's tail.
+                Text {
+                    anchors.right: parent.right
+                    anchors.rightMargin: Theme.padL
+                    anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
+                    text: root.results.length > 0
+                        ? (root.selected + 1) + "/" + root.results.length
+                        : ""
+                    color: Theme.muted
+                    font.family: Theme.fontMono
+                    font.pixelSize: Theme.fsMicro
+                    font.letterSpacing: 1
+                    renderType: Text.NativeRendering
+                }
+            }
+
+            Skew {
+                id: divider
+                anchors.top: header.bottom
+                width: parent.width
+                height: Theme.stroke
+                color: Theme.alpha(Theme.outline, 0.8)
+                lean: 0
+            }
+
+            // -------------------------------------------------------- list
+            Item {
+                id: listBox
+                anchors.top: divider.bottom
+                width: parent.width
+                height: Math.min(root.results.length, root.maxRows) * root.rowHeight
+                    + (root.results.length > 0 ? Theme.padS * 2 : 0)
+                clip: true
+
+                Behavior on height {
+                    NumberAnimation { duration: Theme.durBase; easing.type: Easing.OutExpo }
+                }
+
+                ListView {
+                    id: list
+                    anchors.fill: parent
+                    anchors.topMargin: Theme.padS
+                    anchors.bottomMargin: Theme.padS
+                    anchors.leftMargin: Theme.padM
+                    anchors.rightMargin: Theme.padM
+                    model: root.results
+                    currentIndex: root.selected
+                    boundsBehavior: Flickable.StopAtBounds
+                    reuseItems: true
+
+                    delegate: ResultRow {
+                        required property var modelData
+                        required property int index
+
+                        width: list.width
+                        entry: modelData
+                        selected: index === root.selected
+                        badge: root.arg !== "" ? "OPEN  ⏎" : "⏎"
+                        onActivated: {
+                            root.selected = index;
+                            root.activate();
+                        }
+                        onPinRequested: {
+                            root.selected = index;
+                            root.pin();
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+
+                // Empty state. Says which of the two ways to be empty it is,
+                // because "no results" and "nothing typed" want different
+                // things from you.
+                Text {
+                    anchors.centerIn: parent
+                    visible: root.results.length === 0 && root.query !== ""
+                    text: root.mode === "calc" ? "NOT AN EXPRESSION" : "NO MATCH"
+                    color: Theme.muted
+                    font.family: Theme.fontMono
+                    font.pixelSize: Theme.fsSmall
+                    font.letterSpacing: 4
+                    renderType: Text.NativeRendering
+                }
+            }
+
+            // -------------------------------------------------------- hints
+            Item {
+                id: hint
+                anchors.top: listBox.bottom
+                width: parent.width
+                height: 30
+
+                Text {
+                    anchors.centerIn: parent
+                    color: Theme.muted
+                    font.family: Theme.fontMono
+                    font.pixelSize: Theme.fsMicro
+                    font.letterSpacing: 3
+                    renderType: Text.NativeRendering
+                    text: root.selectMode
+                        ? "H J K L  MOVE     L  PIN     ESC  TYPE"
+                        : root.mode === "dmenu"
+                            ? "⏎  CHOOSE     ESC  CANCEL     ↑↓  SELECT"
+                            : root.mode === "clip"
+                                ? "⏎  COPY     ESC  BACK     ↑↓  SELECT"
+                                : root.pinned
+                                    ? "⏎  OPEN     ESC  UNPIN     ↑↓  PICK"
+                                    : "TAB  PIN     >  SHELL     =  CALC     :  CLIPBOARD"
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    // ------------------------------------------------------------------ keys
+    function handleKey(event: var): void {
+        if (!root.open) return;
+
+        const ctrl = (event.modifiers & Qt.ControlModifier) !== 0;
+
+        // Escape peels one layer at a time: select mode, then the pin, then
+        // the launcher. Nothing about it is ever a surprise.
+        if (event.key === Qt.Key_Escape) {
+            if (root.selectMode) root.selectMode = false;
+            else if (root.pinned) root.unpin();
+            else Actions.closeLauncher();
+            event.accepted = true;
+            return;
+        }
+
+        if (event.key === Qt.Key_Return || event.key === Qt.Key_Enter) {
+            root.activate();
+            event.accepted = true;
+            return;
+        }
+
+        if (event.key === Qt.Key_Tab) {
+            root.pin();
+            event.accepted = true;
+            return;
+        }
+
+        if (event.key === Qt.Key_Down || (ctrl && event.key === Qt.Key_J)
+            || (ctrl && event.key === Qt.Key_N)) {
+            root.selectMode = true;
+            root.move(1);
+            event.accepted = true;
+            return;
+        }
+
+        if (event.key === Qt.Key_Up || (ctrl && event.key === Qt.Key_K)
+            || (ctrl && event.key === Qt.Key_P)) {
+            root.selectMode = true;
+            root.move(-1);
+            event.accepted = true;
+            return;
+        }
+
+        if (ctrl && event.key === Qt.Key_U) {
+            root.query = "";
+            event.accepted = true;
+            return;
+        }
+
+        if (!root.selectMode) return;
+
+        // Select mode. The letters navigate; anything else drops you back into
+        // the input, having typed nothing, so a mistyped `d` costs one press
+        // rather than a mangled query.
+        switch (event.key) {
+        case Qt.Key_J: root.move(1); event.accepted = true; return;
+        case Qt.Key_K: root.move(-1); event.accepted = true; return;
+        case Qt.Key_L: root.pin(); event.accepted = true; return;
+        case Qt.Key_H: root.unpin(); event.accepted = true; return;
+        case Qt.Key_G:
+            root.selected = (event.modifiers & Qt.ShiftModifier)
+                ? root.results.length - 1 : 0;
+            list.positionViewAtIndex(root.selected, ListView.Contain);
+            event.accepted = true;
+            return;
+        case Qt.Key_Backspace:
+            root.selectMode = false;
+            event.accepted = true;
+            return;
+        }
+
+        if (event.text !== "") root.selectMode = false;
+    }
+
+    // ------------------------------------------------------------- animation
+    ParallelAnimation {
+        id: openAnim
+        NumberAnimation {
+            target: backdrop; property: "opacity"
+            to: 1; duration: Theme.durBase; easing.type: Easing.OutQuad
+        }
+        NumberAnimation {
+            target: shell; property: "opacity"
+            to: 1; duration: Theme.durBase
+        }
+        NumberAnimation {
+            target: rise; property: "y"
+            from: 24; to: 0; duration: Theme.durSlow; easing.type: Easing.OutBack
+        }
+    }
+
+    ParallelAnimation {
+        id: closeAnim
+        NumberAnimation {
+            target: backdrop; property: "opacity"
+            to: 0; duration: Theme.durFast
+        }
+        NumberAnimation {
+            target: shell; property: "opacity"
+            to: 0; duration: Theme.durFast
+        }
+        NumberAnimation {
+            target: rise; property: "y"
+            to: 16; duration: Theme.durFast; easing.type: Easing.InQuad
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/quickshell/launcher/ResultRow.qml b/quickshell/launcher/ResultRow.qml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..eeaa18d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/quickshell/launcher/ResultRow.qml
@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+import QtQuick
+import Quickshell
+import Quickshell.Widgets
+import "root:/config"
+import "root:/components"
+
+// One line in the result list. Rest is bare — no fill, no border — so a list of
+// forty apps reads as a column of text rather than forty boxes. Only the
+// selected row gets a slab, and it takes the full inverted treatment: white
+// fill, black text. That is the strongest contrast the palette has, which is
+// what the row you are about to launch should be wearing.
+Item {
+    id: root
+
+    required property var entry
+    required property bool selected
+    property bool hovered: false
+    property string badge: ""
+
+    signal activated
+    signal pinRequested
+
+    implicitHeight: 46
+
+    // Selection slab. Leans like everything else; drawn as a Skew so the
+    // diagonals get analytic antialiasing instead of a pixel staircase.
+    Skew {
+        anchors.fill: parent
+        anchors.leftMargin: -Theme.padS
+        anchors.rightMargin: -Theme.padS
+        color: root.selected ? Theme.treatmentSelectedFill : "transparent"
+        opacity: root.selected ? 1 : 0
+
+        Behavior on opacity {
+            NumberAnimation { duration: Theme.durFast; easing.type: Easing.OutQuad }
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Hover is a crimson tick in the gutter rather than a second slab, so
+    // pointing at a row cannot be mistaken for selecting it.
+    Skew {
+        anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
+        x: -Theme.padS
+        width: 3
+        height: root.hovered && !root.selected ? parent.height - 10 : 0
+        color: Theme.accent
+
+        Behavior on height {
+            NumberAnimation { duration: Theme.durFast; easing.type: Easing.OutBack }
+        }
+    }
+
+    Row {
+        anchors.fill: parent
+        anchors.leftMargin: Theme.padM
+        anchors.rightMargin: Theme.padM
+        spacing: Theme.padM
+
+        IconImage {
+            anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
+            implicitSize: 26
+            asynchronous: true
+            source: root.entry.icon ? Quickshell.iconPath(root.entry.icon, true) : ""
+            visible: source !== ""
+        }
+
+        // Entries with no icon still need to occupy the same gutter, or their
+        // labels wander left and the column stops being a column.
+        Icon {
+            anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
+            width: 26
+            text: "󰣆"
+            color: root.selected ? Theme.treatmentSelectedText : Theme.muted
+            visible: !root.entry.icon && root.entry.kind !== "dmenu"
+        }
+
+        Column {
+            anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
+            width: parent.width - 26 - Theme.padM * 2 - trailing.width
+            spacing: -1
+
+            Text {
+                width: parent.width
+                text: root.entry.name
+                elide: Text.ElideRight
+                color: root.selected ? Theme.treatmentSelectedText : Theme.text
+                font.family: Theme.fontMono
+                font.pixelSize: Theme.fsBody
+                font.weight: root.selected ? Font.Bold : Theme.weightBody
+                renderType: Text.NativeRendering
+            }
+
+            Text {
+                width: parent.width
+                text: root.entry.sub
+                visible: text !== ""
+                elide: Text.ElideRight
+                color: root.selected ? Theme.alpha(Theme.ink, 0.6) : Theme.muted
+                font.family: Theme.fontMono
+                font.pixelSize: Theme.fsMicro
+                renderType: Text.NativeRendering
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Trailing hint: the key that fires this row. Only the selected row shows
+    // one, because a column of ⏎ glyphs tells you nothing.
+    Text {
+        id: trailing
+        anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
+        anchors.right: parent.right
+        anchors.rightMargin: Theme.padM
+        text: root.selected ? root.badge : ""
+        color: Theme.alpha(Theme.ink, 0.55)
+        font.family: Theme.fontMono
+        font.pixelSize: Theme.fsMicro
+        font.letterSpacing: 2
+        renderType: Text.NativeRendering
+    }
+
+    HoverHandler {
+        onHoveredChanged: root.hovered = hovered
+    }
+
+    TapHandler {
+        acceptedButtons: Qt.LeftButton | Qt.RightButton
+        onTapped: (point, button) => {
+            if (button === Qt.RightButton) root.pinRequested();
+            else root.activated();
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/quickshell/scripts/takemi-dmenu b/quickshell/scripts/takemi-dmenu
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..5bb7631
--- /dev/null
+++ b/quickshell/scripts/takemi-dmenu
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# fuzzel --dmenu, backed by the Takemi launcher in Quickshell.
+#
+# Reads choices on stdin, prints the chosen line on stdout, prints nothing if
+# the launcher was dismissed. Accepts the handful of fuzzel flags the callers
+# in this config actually pass so they did not have to be rewritten.
+#
+# The launcher lives in the already-running shell process, so unlike fuzzel
+# there is nothing to start; the cost here is the two-file handshake, which
+# exists because `qs ipc call` returns immediately and a dmenu has to block.
+set -eu
+
+prompt=""
+while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
+    case "$1" in
+        --dmenu|-d) ;;
+        --prompt) prompt="${2-}"; shift ;;
+        --prompt=*) prompt="${1#--prompt=}" ;;
+        *) ;;
+    esac
+    shift
+done
+
+dir=$(mktemp -d)
+trap 'rm -rf "$dir"' EXIT INT TERM
+cat > "$dir/in"
+
+qs ipc call shell dmenu "$dir/in" "$dir/out" "$prompt" >/dev/null
+
+# Give up after two minutes rather than wedging a caller forever if the shell
+# is reloaded out from under us mid-choice.
+i=0
+while [ ! -e "$dir/out" ]; do
+    i=$((i + 1))
+    [ "$i" -gt 2400 ] && exit 1
+    sleep 0.05
+done
+
+cat "$dir/out"
diff --git a/quickshell/services/Actions.qml b/quickshell/services/Actions.qml
index 34ba949..1eb4aae 100644
--- a/quickshell/services/Actions.qml
+++ b/quickshell/services/Actions.qml
@@ -15,6 +15,12 @@ Singleton {
     property bool powerMenuOpen: false
     property bool lockRequested: false
     property bool sidebarOpen: false
+    property bool launcherOpen: false
+
+    // Seed text for the next launcher open. Lets a keybind or a script hand the
+    // launcher a query it did not have to type — `qs ipc call shell prompt
+    // "https://…"` is an open-with dialog for anything that can run a command.
+    property string launcherSeed: ""
 
     signal osdRequested(string kind)
 
@@ -22,6 +28,26 @@ Singleton {
     function closePowerMenu() { root.powerMenuOpen = false; }
     function lock() { root.powerMenuOpen = false; root.lockRequested = true; }
 
+    function toggleLauncher() {
+        if (!root.launcherOpen) root.launcherSeed = "";
+        root.launcherOpen = !root.launcherOpen;
+    }
+    function closeLauncher() { root.launcherOpen = false; }
+
+    // Stand in for `fuzzel --dmenu`. See Apps.beginDmenu for the transport.
+    function dmenuLauncher(inPath: string, outPath: string, prompt: string) {
+        Apps.beginDmenu(inPath, outPath, prompt);
+        root.launcherSeed = "";
+        root.launcherOpen = false;
+        root.launcherOpen = true;
+    }
+
+    function promptLauncher(seed: string) {
+        root.launcherSeed = seed;
+        root.launcherOpen = false;
+        root.launcherOpen = true;
+    }
+
     // ------------------------------------------------------------- commands
     // Each slot gets its own Process so a slow one cannot cancel another.
     Process { id: slotA }
@@ -62,6 +88,11 @@ Singleton {
 
         function lock(): void { root.lock(); }
         function power(): void { root.togglePowerMenu(); }
+        function launcher(): void { root.toggleLauncher(); }
+        function prompt(seed: string): void { root.promptLauncher(seed); }
+        function dmenu(inPath: string, outPath: string, prompt: string): void {
+            root.dmenuLauncher(inPath, outPath, prompt);
+        }
         function reloadConfig(): void { root.reloadShell(); }
         function toggleDnd(): void { Notifs.toggleDnd(); }
         function clearNotifications(): void { Notifs.clearAll(); }
diff --git a/quickshell/services/Apps.qml b/quickshell/services/Apps.qml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..db7ebaf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/quickshell/services/Apps.qml
@@ -0,0 +1,530 @@
+pragma Singleton
+
+import QtQuick
+import Quickshell
+import Quickshell.Io
+
+// The launcher's brain: the application index, the query language, ranking,
+// and the actual spawning. The UI in launcher/ owns no logic beyond keys and
+// animation — everything it shows comes out of `results`.
+//
+// The one idea the launcher is built around is that a query is a *verb plus an
+// object*. Fuzzel only ever had the verb: you typed a name and it ran the app
+// with no arguments. Here the object is first class, so `gitlab.enqs.de` is a
+// complete thought — the object is the URL, and the list becomes the set of
+// verbs that can act on it, with the system default already selected. Hitting
+// Enter the moment you stop typing is the fast path; arrowing down to a
+// different verb is the slow one.
+Singleton {
+    id: root
+
+    // ------------------------------------------------------------- the index
+    // Every launchable thing, flattened. A desktop entry with actions
+    // contributes one item per action as well as itself, so "Brave (Private)"
+    // is a peer of "Brave" in the list rather than something you have to drill
+    // into. That is the whole reason fuzzel's `show-actions` was off: nested
+    // disclosure in a launcher is a step too many.
+    readonly property var index: {
+        const out = [];
+        const apps = DesktopEntries.applications.values;
+
+        for (let i = 0; i < apps.length; i++) {
+            const e = apps[i];
+            if (e.noDisplay) continue;
+
+            out.push({
+                key: root._entryKey(e.id),
+                id: e.id,
+                actionId: "",
+                name: e.name,
+                sub: e.genericName || e.comment || "",
+                icon: e.icon,
+                exec: e.execString,
+                categories: root._bag(e.categories),
+                keywords: root._bag(e.keywords),
+                terminal: e.runInTerminal,
+                kind: "app"
+            });
+
+            const actions = e.actions;
+            for (let j = 0; j < actions.length; j++) {
+                const a = actions[j];
+                out.push({
+                    key: root._entryKey(e.id) + ":" + a.id,
+                    id: e.id,
+                    actionId: a.id,
+                    name: e.name + " · " + a.name,
+                    sub: a.name,
+                    icon: a.icon || e.icon,
+                    exec: a.execString,
+                    categories: root._bag(e.categories),
+                    keywords: root._bag(e.keywords),
+                    terminal: e.runInTerminal,
+                    kind: "action"
+                });
+            }
+        }
+        return out;
+    }
+
+    function _entryKey(id: string): string {
+        return id.endsWith(".desktop") ? id : id + ".desktop";
+    }
+
+    // Categories and Keywords come across as string *lists*, not strings, and
+    // an absent one is undefined rather than empty. Both get flattened to one
+    // lowercase haystack so the scoring below can just call `includes`.
+    function _bag(v: var): string {
+        if (!v) return "";
+        return (Array.isArray(v) ? v.join(" ") : String(v)).toLowerCase();
+    }
+
+    // --------------------------------------------------------- query parsing
+    // A query resolves to a mode and, in app mode, an optional argument. There
+    // are two ways to end up with an argument:
+    //
+    //   pinned    you pressed Tab on a result, which froze that app as the verb
+    //             and handed the rest of the input to it. Unambiguous, works
+    //             for arguments that look like nothing in particular.
+    //   implicit  what you typed is *obviously* an object — a URL, a path, an
+    //             email. Nothing is pinned, so every app is a candidate verb
+    //             and the ranking decides who goes first.
+    //
+    // Implicit detection is deliberately conservative. A false positive turns
+    // an app search into an open-with list, which is jarring; a false negative
+    // just means you press Tab.
+    readonly property var urlRe: /^[a-z][a-z0-9+.-]*:\/\//i
+    readonly property var hostRe: /^([a-z0-9-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,}(\/\S*)?$/i
+    readonly property var mailRe: /^[^\s@]+@[^\s@]+\.[a-z]{2,}$/i
+    readonly property var pathRe: /^(~|\/|\.\/)\S*$/
+
+    function classify(text: string): string {
+        const t = text.trim();
+        if (t === "") return "";
+        if (root.urlRe.test(t) || root.hostRe.test(t)) return "url";
+        if (root.mailRe.test(t)) return "mail";
+        if (root.pathRe.test(t)) return "path";
+        return "";
+    }
+
+    // Turn a bare host into something a browser will accept. `gitlab.enqs.de`
+    // on its own is a relative path as far as xdg-open is concerned.
+    function normalizeArg(text: string, kind: string): string {
+        const t = text.trim();
+        if (kind === "url") return root.urlRe.test(t) ? t : "https://" + t;
+        if (kind === "mail") return "mailto:" + t;
+        if (kind === "path" && t.startsWith("~"))
+            return Quickshell.env("HOME") + t.slice(1);
+        return t;
+    }
+
+    // ------------------------------------------------------------- defaults
+    // Which app the system would have picked. This is what puts Brave at row
+    // zero without the launcher having an opinion about browsers.
+    property string defaultBrowser: ""
+    property string defaultMail: ""
+
+    Process {
+        running: true
+        command: ["xdg-mime", "query", "default", "x-scheme-handler/https"]
+        stdout: StdioCollector {
+            onStreamFinished: root.defaultBrowser = this.text.trim()
+        }
+    }
+
+    Process {
+        running: true
+        command: ["xdg-mime", "query", "default", "x-scheme-handler/mailto"]
+        stdout: StdioCollector {
+            onStreamFinished: root.defaultMail = this.text.trim()
+        }
+    }
+
+    // --------------------------------------------------------------- ranking
+    // Subsequence match with a bias toward matches that start a word. Returns
+    // -1 for no match. The numbers are only meaningful relative to each other.
+    function fuzzy(hay: string, needle: string): real {
+        if (needle === "") return 0;
+        const h = hay.toLowerCase();
+        const n = needle.toLowerCase();
+
+        if (h === n) return 1000;
+        if (h.startsWith(n)) return 700 - h.length;
+
+        // Start of any word inside the name — "code" hitting "Visual Studio
+        // Code" should beat "code" scattered through "Chromium Dev Tools".
+        const word = h.indexOf(" " + n);
+        if (word !== -1) return 500 - word;
+        if (h.includes(n)) return 300 - h.indexOf(n);
+
+        // Plain subsequence, penalised by how far apart the letters are.
+        let score = 120;
+        let at = -1;
+        for (let i = 0; i < n.length; i++) {
+            const next = h.indexOf(n[i], at + 1);
+            if (next === -1) return -1;
+            score -= (next - at - 1) * 0.5;
+            at = next;
+        }
+        return Math.max(score, 1);
+    }
+
+    function _appScore(item: var, term: string): real {
+        if (term === "") return 0;
+
+        let best = root.fuzzy(item.name, term);
+
+        // Secondary fields are worth less than the name on purpose: matching a
+        // Keywords= line should break a tie, not win outright.
+        const sub = root.fuzzy(item.sub, term);
+        if (sub > 0) best = Math.max(best, sub * 0.45);
+
+        const id = root.fuzzy(item.id, term);
+        if (id > 0) best = Math.max(best, id * 0.6);
+
+        if (item.keywords.includes(term.toLowerCase()))
+            best = Math.max(best, 140);
+
+        // An action only surfaces on a free-text search once you have typed
+        // enough to plausibly mean it, otherwise every browser triples the
+        // length of the list for a one-letter query.
+        if (item.kind === "action" && term.length < 2) return -1;
+
+        return best;
+    }
+
+    // How well an app suits an object it did not ask for. Everything stays in
+    // the list — the point is that you can open a URL with anything — but the
+    // system default and then the plausible handlers float up.
+    function _affinity(item: var, kind: string): real {
+        let a = 0;
+
+        if (kind === "url" || kind === "mail") {
+            const wanted = kind === "url" ? root.defaultBrowser : root.defaultMail;
+            if (wanted !== "" && item.key.startsWith(wanted)) a += 4000;
+            if (item.categories.includes("webbrowser")) a += 2000;
+            if (kind === "mail" && item.categories.includes("email")) a += 2500;
+            if (item.categories.includes("network")) a += 400;
+        } else if (kind === "path") {
+            if (item.categories.includes("filemanager")) a += 2500;
+            if (item.categories.includes("texteditor")) a += 1800;
+            if (item.categories.includes("development")) a += 600;
+            if (item.terminal) a += 300;
+        }
+
+        // The main entry outranks its own actions for an unasked-for object:
+        // "open this link in Brave" is the common case, "…in a private window"
+        // is the deliberate one.
+        if (item.kind === "action") a -= 250;
+        return a;
+    }
+
+    // The single entry point the UI binds to.
+    //
+    //   term    what to match apps against ("" means "everything")
+    //   arg     the object, if any
+    //   argKind "" | url | mail | path
+    function search(term: string, arg: string, argKind: string): var {
+        const scored = [];
+        const idx = root.index;
+        const open = arg !== "";
+
+        for (let i = 0; i < idx.length; i++) {
+            const item = idx[i];
+            let s = root._appScore(item, term);
+            if (term !== "" && s < 0) continue;
+
+            // With nothing typed, actions would double the length of a list
+            // that is already just "your apps, by how often you use them".
+            if (term === "" && !open && item.kind === "action") continue;
+
+            if (open) s += root._affinity(item, argKind);
+            s += root.frecency(item.key);
+            scored.push({ item: item, score: s });
+        }
+
+        scored.sort((a, b) => b.score - a.score || a.item.name.localeCompare(b.item.name));
+        return scored.slice(0, 60).map(e => e.item);
+    }
+
+    // -------------------------------------------------------------- frecency
+    // Usage decays: something you opened forty times last year should not
+    // outrank what you opened twice this morning. Half-life is a week, which
+    // is long enough to be stable and short enough to follow a change of
+    // project.
+    property var usage: ({})
+    readonly property real halfLife: 7 * 24 * 3600
+
+    function frecency(key: string): real {
+        const u = root.usage[key];
+        if (!u) return 0;
+        const age = Date.now() / 1000 - u.t;
+        return u.n * 240 * Math.pow(0.5, age / root.halfLife);
+    }
+
+    function _remember(key: string): void {
+        const u = root.usage[key];
+        const now = Date.now() / 1000;
+
+        // Decay the stored count on write rather than letting it grow without
+        // bound, so `n` stays a decayed weight instead of a lifetime total.
+        const decayed = u ? u.n * Math.pow(0.5, (now - u.t) / root.halfLife) : 0;
+        root.usage[key] = { n: decayed + 1, t: now };
+        root.usageChanged();
+        store.setText(JSON.stringify(root.usage));
+    }
+
+    FileView {
+        id: store
+        path: Quickshell.env("HOME") + "/.local/state/takemi/launcher.json"
+        preload: true
+        printErrors: false
+        atomicWrites: true
+        onLoaded: {
+            try {
+                root.usage = JSON.parse(store.text()) || ({});
+            } catch (e) {
+                root.usage = ({});
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    // ----------------------------------------------------------------- spawn
+    // Handing uwsm a desktop ID is the good path: it expands the Exec field
+    // codes around our argument, picks the terminal for Terminal=true entries,
+    // and drops the process in its own scope.
+    //
+    // It refuses one thing, and it is exactly the thing this launcher is for.
+    // `Exec=brave --incognito` declares no field code, so uwsm rejects
+    // `brave-browser.desktop:new-private-window <url>` with "does not support
+    // arguments" — which would make "open this link in a private window", the
+    // motivating example for the whole feature, the one case that does not
+    // work. Most Desktop Action entries are written that way.
+    //
+    // So when the target declares no placeholder we build the command line
+    // ourselves and hand uwsm an argv instead of an ID. It is still scoped and
+    // still supervised; we just did the expansion.
+    readonly property var fieldRe: /%[fFuU]/
+    readonly property var anyFieldRe: /^%[a-zA-Z]$/
+
+    function launch(item: var, arg: string): void {
+        root._remember(item.key);
+
+        if (arg === "") {
+            proc.exec(["uwsm", "app", "--", item.key]);
+            return;
+        }
+
+        if (root.fieldRe.test(item.exec || "")) {
+            proc.exec(["uwsm", "app", "--", item.key, arg]);
+            return;
+        }
+
+        const argv = root._tokenize(item.exec || "")
+            .filter(t => !root.anyFieldRe.test(t));
+        if (argv.length === 0) {
+            proc.exec(["uwsm", "app", "--", item.key]);
+            return;
+        }
+        argv.push(arg);
+
+        // Without this the unit is named after the bare executable and every
+        // app launched this way collides in the unit namespace.
+        const name = item.key.replace(".desktop", "").replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9_-]/g, "-");
+        const head = ["uwsm", "app", "-a", name];
+        if (item.terminal) head.push("-T");
+        proc.exec(head.concat(["--"]).concat(argv));
+    }
+
+    // Exec lines are shell-ish but not shell: the spec allows double quotes and
+    // backslash escapes, and nothing else. Splitting on whitespace would break
+    // every entry with a quoted path, and running it through `sh -c` would make
+    // a desktop file a code-execution surface.
+    function _tokenize(line: string): var {
+        const out = [];
+        let cur = "";
+        let quoted = false;
+        let has = false;
+
+        for (let i = 0; i < line.length; i++) {
+            const c = line[i];
+            if (c === "\\" && i + 1 < line.length) {
+                cur += line[++i];
+                has = true;
+            } else if (c === '"') {
+                quoted = !quoted;
+                has = true;
+            } else if (!quoted && (c === " " || c === "\t")) {
+                if (has) { out.push(cur); cur = ""; has = false; }
+            } else {
+                cur += c;
+                has = true;
+            }
+        }
+        if (has) out.push(cur);
+        return out;
+    }
+
+    function runShell(line: string, inTerminal: bool): void {
+        if (line.trim() === "") return;
+        if (inTerminal) proc.exec(["uwsm", "app", "-T", "--", "sh", "-c", line]);
+        else proc.exec(["uwsm", "app", "--", "sh", "-c", line]);
+    }
+
+    function copy(text: string): void {
+        proc.exec(["wl-copy", "--", text]);
+    }
+
+    // Fire-and-forget. Each call replaces the last, which is fine because uwsm
+    // has already handed the app off to systemd by the time it exits.
+    Process { id: proc }
+
+    // ----------------------------------------------------------------- dmenu
+    // The launcher can stand in for `fuzzel --dmenu`, which is what lets fuzzel
+    // leave the system entirely: fluxo's bluetooth menu and anything else that
+    // pipes a list through a picker go through here instead.
+    //
+    // The transport is two files, because IPC calls return immediately and a
+    // dmenu has to block until someone chooses. `takemi-dmenu` writes the
+    // choices, calls in, then waits for the answer file to appear. If the
+    // launcher is dismissed the answer file is written empty, so the caller
+    // sees an empty selection rather than hanging.
+    property var dmenuItems: []
+    property string dmenuPrompt: ""
+    property string dmenuOut: ""
+    readonly property bool dmenuActive: root.dmenuOut !== ""
+
+    function beginDmenu(inPath: string, outPath: string, prompt: string): void {
+        root.dmenuPrompt = prompt;
+        root.dmenuOut = outPath;
+        dmenuIn.path = "";
+        dmenuIn.path = inPath;
+    }
+
+    // Writing the answer with a FileView does not work: assigning `path` kicks
+    // off a read of a file that does not exist yet, and the write never lands —
+    // which leaves the caller blocked until its own timeout. A one-shot
+    // redirect is both simpler and actually synchronous from the caller's point
+    // of view, since the file appears complete or not at all.
+    //
+    // The choice and the path go in as positional arguments rather than being
+    // interpolated into the script, so a clipboard entry containing a quote or
+    // a `$(…)` is data and stays data.
+    function finishDmenu(choice: string): void {
+        if (root.dmenuOut === "") return;
+        // Write beside the target and rename, so the waiting script can treat
+        // "the file exists" as "the answer is complete".
+        dmenuWriter.exec(["sh", "-c",
+                          'printf "%s" "$1" > "$2.part" && mv "$2.part" "$2"',
+                          "sh", choice, root.dmenuOut]);
+        root.dmenuOut = "";
+        root.dmenuItems = [];
+        root.dmenuPrompt = "";
+    }
+
+    Process { id: dmenuWriter }
+
+    FileView {
+        id: dmenuIn
+        onLoaded: {
+            const out = [];
+            const lines = dmenuIn.text().split("\n");
+            for (let i = 0; i < lines.length; i++) {
+                if (lines[i] === "") continue;
+                out.push({ kind: "dmenu", name: lines[i], sub: "", icon: "" });
+            }
+            root.dmenuItems = out;
+        }
+    }
+
+    function searchDmenu(term: string): var {
+        if (term === "") return root.dmenuItems.slice(0, 200);
+        const scored = [];
+        for (let i = 0; i < root.dmenuItems.length; i++) {
+            const c = root.dmenuItems[i];
+            const s = root.fuzzy(c.name, term);
+            if (s < 0) continue;
+            scored.push({ item: c, score: s });
+        }
+        scored.sort((a, b) => b.score - a.score);
+        return scored.slice(0, 200).map(e => e.item);
+    }
+
+    // ------------------------------------------------------------- clipboard
+    // cliphist keeps the history; this just reads and replays it. `cliphist
+    // list` emits "<id>\t<preview>" per line, where the preview is already
+    // single-line and truncated — binary entries come through as a
+    // "[[ binary data … ]]" placeholder, which is exactly what should be shown
+    // for them anyway.
+    property var clips: []
+
+    function refreshClips(): void {
+        clipList.running = false;
+        clipList.running = true;
+    }
+
+    Process {
+        id: clipList
+        command: ["cliphist", "list"]
+        stdout: StdioCollector {
+            onStreamFinished: {
+                const out = [];
+                const lines = this.text.split("\n");
+                for (let i = 0; i < lines.length; i++) {
+                    const tab = lines[i].indexOf("\t");
+                    if (tab <= 0) continue;
+                    const id = lines[i].slice(0, tab);
+                    if (!/^[0-9]+$/.test(id)) continue;
+                    out.push({
+                        kind: "clip",
+                        clipId: id,
+                        name: lines[i].slice(tab + 1),
+                        sub: "",
+                        icon: "edit-paste"
+                    });
+                }
+                root.clips = out;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    // The id is checked against /^[0-9]+$/ on the way in, above, which is what
+    // makes it safe to put on a shell command line. Decoding needs the pipe:
+    // entries can be binary, so the bytes must go straight from cliphist into
+    // wl-copy without being round-tripped through a QML string.
+    function pasteClip(item: var): void {
+        if (!/^[0-9]+$/.test(item.clipId)) return;
+        proc.exec(["sh", "-c", "cliphist decode " + item.clipId + " | wl-copy"]);
+    }
+
+    function searchClips(term: string): var {
+        if (term === "") return root.clips.slice(0, 60);
+        const scored = [];
+        for (let i = 0; i < root.clips.length; i++) {
+            const c = root.clips[i];
+            const s = root.fuzzy(c.name, term);
+            if (s < 0) continue;
+            scored.push({ item: c, score: s });
+        }
+        scored.sort((a, b) => b.score - a.score);
+        return scored.slice(0, 60).map(e => e.item);
+    }
+
+    // ------------------------------------------------------------ calculator
+    // Arithmetic only. The expression is checked against a whitelist before it
+    // goes anywhere near the JS engine — a launcher that evals whatever you
+    // typed is a launcher that runs whatever a stray paste contained.
+    readonly property var mathRe: /^[0-9+\-*/%(). ,e]+$/i
+
+    function calc(expr: string): string {
+        const e = expr.trim();
+        if (e === "" || !root.mathRe.test(e)) return "";
+        try {
+            const v = Function('"use strict"; return (' + e + ')')();
+            if (typeof v !== "number" || !isFinite(v)) return "";
+            return String(Math.round(v * 1e10) / 1e10);
+        } catch (err) {
+            return "";
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/quickshell/shell.qml b/quickshell/shell.qml
index 1a25566..7aba288 100644
--- a/quickshell/shell.qml
+++ b/quickshell/shell.qml
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import Quickshell
 import "root:/config"
 import "root:/services"
 import "root:/bar"
+import "root:/launcher"
 import "root:/overlays"
 import "root:/lock"
 
@@ -10,6 +11,7 @@ import "root:/lock"
 //
 //   bar/       the top bar and its modules
 //   popouts/   hover panels hanging off bar modules
+//   launcher/  the application launcher
 //   overlays/  power menu, notification toasts, OSD
 //   lock/      session lock
 //   services/  data sources (fluxo, pipewire, bluez, upower, mpris, …)
@@ -28,6 +30,7 @@ ShellRoot {
         void Net.wifiEnabled;
         void Bt.available;
         void Actions.powerMenuOpen;
+        void Apps.index;
     }
 
     Variants {
@@ -42,6 +45,12 @@ ShellRoot {
         Rail {}
     }
 
+    Variants {
+        model: Quickshell.screens
+
+        Launcher {}
+    }
+
     Variants {
         model: Quickshell.screens