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mrehm

New Member

Registered: 2012-08-27

Posts: 6

"run program" could be educated?

Can I teach "run program"/Alt+F2 to run a program with maybe the first 3 letters typed, then opening a choice and learning what I prefer to open?
Let's say,  I type "ope" and it shows me eg. "opera" "openoffice", but knows I normally choose "opera", this then is on the top of the list and opens with "enter", a click of the eye
This works quite good in opensuse,
I missed this function Alt+F2 in all other linux-distros, or me being too stupid to find it
Now I see it here, but not so suitable
Any workaround for this?

Martin

mynis01

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From: 127.0.0.1

Registered: 2010-07-02

Posts: 2,005

Re: "run program" could be educated?

The default run dialog is gmrun, you can replace it with other ones if you want. What I suggest though, is using dmenu by hitting alt+f3. krunner is the default in opensuse, you could install that instead but it will pull in all of the KDE deps.

Last edited by mynis01 (2012-08-30 22:45:29)

wuxmedia

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From: Back in Blighty

Registered: 2012-03-09

Posts: 1,474

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Re: "run program" could be educated?

i hit tab (like in terminal) and it shows a drop down menu !
true doesn't remember your last choice...
otherwise dmenu works nice.

shengchieh

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Registered: 2009-01-07

Posts: 617

Re: "run program" could be educated?

Can I teach "run program"/Alt+F2 to run a program with maybe the first 3 letters typed, then opening a choice and learning what I prefer to open?
Let's say,  I type "ope" and it shows me eg. "opera" "openoffice", but knows I normally choose "opera", this then is on the top of the list and opens with "enter", a click of the eye
This works quite good in opensuse,
I missed this function Alt+F2 in all other linux-distros, or me being too stupid to find it
Now I see it here, but not so suitable
Any workaround for this?

Martin

You could create alot of links in /usr/bin.  E.g.

cd /usr/bin
ln -s soffice oo
ln -s firefox ff
...

Sheng-Chieh

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