> Though, since I almost never use
> the menu, I have Super+Space bound to gmrun. (An alternative to
> LXPanel's run dialog with Tab completion and history support)
>
On a sidetrack here, but... have you tried dmenu, from the
suckless.orgproject? Again, it's something I discovered in CrunchBang.
It lets you type
any part of the command (e.g. start typing torrent to find any command with
torrent in it) and it will narrow down to the command you want. I love it -
it makes it much quicker and easier for me to find commands.
To get it to display as a nice white-on-black bar at the top, CrunchBang
uses the script "dmenu-bind.sh" which has the lines:
#!/bin/bash
exe=`dmenu_path | dmenu -nb '#000000' -nf '#FFFFFF' -sb '#FFFFFF' -sf
'#000000'` && eval "exec $exe"
and it assigns the shortcut Alt+F3 to the command:
~/.config/dmenu/dmenu-bind.sh
I find it super easy to use, but I guess it's a bit too geeky for complete
newbies. The one problem is that if you call it and then don't use it (get
distracted, change your mind...) then you might not notice, and won't
realize why you can't type anything. If that could be fixed (e.g. make it
more obvious, bigger and center-screen), it would be a good alternative to
gmrun, in my opinion, and wouldn't be dangerous to add to a newbie-friendly
distro.
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