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    is gnome-launch-box the best program ever?...

    yes, it probably is well it's good so has everyone been using this for ages? why didn't anyone tell me about it

    gnome-launch-box is a program launcher a little like alt-F2, but on steroids lol

    you can launch a program -
    program name <enter>

    you can launch a CLI program and it will run it in a terminal for you e.g. -
    top <enter>


    you can search for files and directories too 8)

    here's how to make a keybinding for it -
    http://developer.imendio.com/node/77

    i made the keybinding alt-F3, that's not used for anything else is it?

    it's in the repos -
    sudo aptitude install gnome-launch-box
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    Re: is gnome-launch-box the best program ever?...

    Sounds like KDE's Katapult. I'm a fan of that. Good to know that Gnome has something similar.
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    Re: is gnome-launch-box the best program ever?...

    Sounds like the new run line in Vista, one of the better improvements to general usability in the OS IMHO. Glad to see a similar function in Ubuntu, I will check it out tonight.

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    Re: is gnome-launch-box the best program ever?...

    Is it like QuickSilver on OSX?

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    Re: is gnome-launch-box the best program ever?...

    Doesn't work for moi.
    Segmentation Fault or something

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    Re: is gnome-launch-box the best program ever?...

    yeap, it's like quicksilver and Katapult, i have got vista but i never use it so i'm not sure if it's like the vista program. but, i suppose it's a bit like start++ for vista
    http://lifehacker.com/software/top/d...sta-240173.php
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    Re: is gnome-launch-box the best program ever?...

    Quote Originally Posted by rowanparker View Post
    Doesn't work for moi.
    Segmentation Fault or something
    i did a search for it before i posted and noticed others had that problem too, but i thought that was with olders versions of it, or older versions of ubuntu. i tried it on gutsy. there might be some posts about how to fix it if you search the forums.
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    Re: is gnome-launch-box the best program ever?...

    Looks cool -- unfortunately, I can't seem to get it to work with Compiz Fusion enabled.
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    Re: is gnome-launch-box the best program ever?...

    Quote Originally Posted by ice60 View Post
    i did a search for it before i posted and noticed others had that problem too, but i thought that was with olders versions of it, or older versions of ubuntu. i tried it on gutsy. there might be some posts about how to fix it if you search the forums.
    Thanks.
    I'll have a look around later.
    It looked good before it crashed anyway

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    Re: is gnome-launch-box the best program ever?...

    i'm sorry it doesn't work for all of you

    i upgraded my ubuntu from feisty, so maybe i have slightly different system files and that's the difference between it working and Seg. Faulting??

    if it makes you feel any better, it is slower than alt-F2, so i'm still using that more.

    i'm no expert, so all i can say is you can run it from a terminal (which it sounds like you're already doing) to have a look at any error messages that may be useful.

    you can also run it with strace too to watch all the calls it makes.
    strace gnome-launch-box
    Last edited by ice60; October 30th, 2007 at 08:20 PM.
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