Run dialog

Md Mooktakim Ahmed Mooktakim at hotmail.com
Thu Jan 13 17:42:50 EST 2005


I would be very happy if some kind of run dialog box would be integrated into openbox.
The reason i say this is becuase at the moment i use http://gmrun.sourceforge.net/
Its great, its absolutely fantastic.
But there is one little problem that annoys me.
Its slow.

Openbox is a great WM. One of the biggest reason i use it because its lightning fast.

However, gmrun, being a GTK app its very slow to load up.

I think if a run dialog, much like gmrun, would be integrated into openbox, maybe have
it loaded in the background ALL the time, then i could have a dialog box that opens up
instantly when i press my keybinding.

gmrun has a lot of delay the first time i run it. It gets faster after that, however it
slows even further when there's a lot of load.

I know that the openbox devs feel that its a WM, therefore it doesn't need a run dialog
box. Some other app will handle it. I appreciate that, i prefer that thinking my self.
Becuase i use lots of other apps, to make my life in openbox easier, (eg: devils, its a
fantastic program). But i just cant find a good app that'l replace a good builtin run
dialog box.

Anyway, just want to see what other people think.

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