Intelligent, Fast and Small Run Dialog

Intelligent, Fast and Small Run Dialog

Two Superb Run Dialogs are there

gRun

grun is Intelligent, Fast and Small. grun is a GTK based Run dialog that closely resembles the Windows Run dialog. It has an intelligent history mechanism and a dual level fork() mechanism for launching the application in its own process. grun is so powerful that you can start typing a command without having to mouse-click into the text field. It is so Intelligent that it automatically completes the command installed in the system by getting the first letter. In my case just typing x completes xpdf and then again adding 'a' (it would be xa) completes xaumix.

grun (Intelligent, Fast, Small)

gmrun

A small, fast, featureful application launcher. gmrun supports tab-completion of file names and programs.

tab-completion feature

Key-binding

IceWM provides a very easy key-binding feature. Why don't we use it with gRun and gmrun ? It is very easy.

cd to .icewm of the home directory. If you don't have it then first create .icewm and copy /etc/X11/icewm/* (in debian) to the created one.
Open the file keys with an editor.
Syntax for key-binding is key "Alt+Ctrl+<keyboard letter>" <command to be executed>
I have
key "Alt+Ctrl+g" grun

key "Alt+Ctrl+r" gmrun

So in my IceWM pressing 'Alt+Ctrl+g' pops up grun and 'Alt+Ctrl+r' pops up gmrun. So simple. key-binding can be used in this way to start other applications too.

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