# LinuxPA, Linux Portable Apps Launcher

**URL:** <https://discourse.appimage.org/t/linuxpa-linux-portable-apps-launcher/184>\
**Category:** Using AppImages\
**Created:** [April 19, 2017, 6:46pm UTC](https://discourse.appimage.org/t/linuxpa-linux-portable-apps-launcher/184 "2017-04-19T18:46:46Z")\
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> [@Royi](#):
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> I didn’t mean replicate being a Daemon which is wrong in my opinion.

Well the thing that you want (something in the “system tray”) is basically appimaged with a tiny GUI to manually launch and to stop it, and to set the watched directories (the directory in which it itself resides being the default). Correct?

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