GnomeLaunchBox

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It's in Hoary universe. It's both in Hoary & Breezy universe.

[http://developer.imendio.com/wiki/GNOME_Launch_Box Gnome Launch Box] is a an application launcher. It's very influenced by Quicksilver for Mac OSX.

Launch Box is the result of a Hackathon at Imendio in the weekend 8th-10th of January. Therefore it's buggy but very eyecandy!

It's both in Hoary & Breezy universe. sudo apt-get install gnome-launch-box

Keyboard binding:

  • Open the Configuration Editor under Applications > System Tools.

  • Go to /apps/metacity/global_keybindings.

  • Change the value of a run_command to some key combination.

  • Go to /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands.

  • Changer the value of command_X (the one you haven choosen before) to gnome-launch-box.

Usage:

  • You can start it up with the definied keyboard shortcut.
  • You are not supposed to click on anything!!!
  • Just type and it will automatically search through you evolutuin contacts, programs and firefox bookmarks.
  • Select one and press enter.
  • With ESC you can exit.

Hint:

  • Gnome Launch Box disapears after starting an application.
  • Starting it up again brings it back (it's using the same PID)!

Credits: [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=18740&highlight=gnome-launch-box Forum Thread]

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