Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sunday 26 Mar 2017 02:51:50 Harry Putnam wrote: >> Just curious is anyone else running the mate desktop has this same >> shortfall. >> >> Usually in the Applications menu top right the last item on the menu >> is a `run' command item where you can type in a command to be run. >> >> My fairly recently installed mate dt does not have that. Wondered if >> others have that item in their `applications' menu. >> >> Or maybe there is some other bit of MATE I have yet to install. > > From what I recall I could click on the desktop and type a > command/application. Plasma also has something similar.
I don't use the desktop click much ... not for any good reason just didn't ever creep into how I operate a desktop. Oddly I had not noticed that in this install ... clicking the DT produces nothing whatsoever. Must be something a litte messed up here somewhere