GnomeLaunchBox

Revision 5 as of 2006-01-18 13:24:13

[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 during the weekend of 8th-10th of January. Therefore it's buggy but very eyecandy!

It's in both Hoary & Breezy Universe. Install it by searching for "Launch Box" in Synaptic or by running:

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 a key combination.
Go to /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands.
Change the value of command_X (the one you haven choosen before) to gnome-launch-box.

You can start it up with the defined keyboard shortcut, or by pressing Alt+F2 and typing gnome-launch-box
You are not supposed to click on anything.
Just type and it will automatically search through your evolution contacts, programs and firefox bookmarks.
Select one and press enter.
With ESC you can exit.