I've been using the launcher app, I highly recommend this program, nobody else does. You set exec to launch the launcher app. Then in the config.ini, you setup your menu structure for the launcher, and what apps it should run. This way, you don't have a ton of programs eating up memory while they are sitting idle. And when you launch pacman, it will then load up pacman into the hijack menu, and let you select it. It does still have a problem with multiple stuff running at the same time, but at least you can choose on the empeg what you want to use without a sync!