[openbox] "Command line window"

[Douglas A. Augusto]

On 05/09/2004 at 15:31,
Juergen Arndt <arndt02 at web.de> wrote:

> Is there a possibility to popup a small "command line window", from
> where you can start any program you want by typing in the name (and
> parametres)? In other window managers / desktop environments mostly you
> get this with the shortcut "Alt-F2". I find it very convinient to start
> applications - especially ones with short names :) - in that way without
> clicking through menus or starting a terminal for the command line
> first. Maybe OB has this feature and i just missed it?

Using 'gmrun' and 'Alt-F2':

  ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml

  [...]

  <keybind key="A-F2">
      <action name="execute"><execute>gmrun</execute></action>
  </keybind> 

  [...]


gmrun:

http://www.dynarch.com/mishoo/gmrun.epl
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmrun


-- 
Douglas Augusto