Gnome Do for launching everything you need
One of my friends has been telling me how he loves using Launchy on Windows. I never cared much for something like it because I usually press Alt+F2 so I could have the run dialog box and type the name of the app from there. In any case, Linuxhelp writes about Gnome Do — something akin to Windows’ utility Launchy and KDE’s Katapult.
Gnome Do is the brain child of David Siegel who started this project to be submitted to his university as a part of his curriculum. It has been entirely coded using C# and uses Mono. David Siegel claims he was motivated to work on Gnome Do seeing a similar project called Quick Silver on Mac OSX.
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Once installed and running, Gnome Do acts as a background process waiting for the specific key press combination from the user. The default key combination is [Win Key] + [Space].
Read more about Gnome Do here.
It’s an app which would be running in the background and tracks stuff like your bookmarks, your folders and the apps on your machine. That’s exactly why it’s a universal launcher which you would probably love using especially when you just want to immediately browse a particular folder. Nifty indeed~!
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3 opinions for Gnome Do for launching everything you need
Thierry Schork
Dec 27, 2007 at 11:13 am
I never noticed this to miss…
Now that you write about it, I realize that some window manager have this included, and I’ve been using it for ages.
I’m a keyboard freak, the less I use my mouse, the better I am (I’m a programmer, I type a lot…).
I use Enlightenment 1.7 (or E17) for 2 years now, and it has this functionality built in.
Alt+esc brings up the run dialog.
Ctrl+alt+ insert brings up a terminal too, and you can bind any key that you want to almost any action the wm is able to do.
I even control audacious (my media player) via keystrokes. Alt+x for pause/play, alt+y for previous track, alt+c for next track…
Once you tasted this, it seems much more natural than switching back and forth your mouse and keyboard.
Adding Gnome Do plugins
Mar 7, 2008 at 8:42 pm
[…] probably tried out various window managers and desktop environments. You probably even tried Gnome Do. If you did, there are also plugins for Gnome Do which you’d probably love. Installing plugins for Gnome-Do is really a […]
pablasso
Mar 7, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Thierry, the bigger WM’s support that kind of functionality too, binding keys is common stuff since ages ago and is not just exclusive for lightweight managers as enlightenment or fluxbox, and the best audio players (as amarok) also support keyboard shortcuts.
You need to try using Quicksilver sometime to understand what GnomeDo is really trying to achieve.
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