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Katapult yourself to keyboard productivity

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 4 comments
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If you like to keep your hands on the keyboard, you may find it tricky to launch new apps, open folder and documents, and change tracks in your music playlist. Katapult is an application launcher that does everything the Alt-F2 run dialog does, and much more.

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Libervis ·
Katapult is a nice program, but if you don't use KDE or do use it but would like something lighter I recommend gmrun: http://www.bazon.net/mishoo/gmrun.epl

Unlike the default "run command" dialogs this one features tab completion. When you start typing a command and press tab you'll get all the commands starting with the letters you typed in a drop down menu. You can also run full commands in it such as adding options to programs you are executing.

In short, I love it.

Cheers
techiem2 ·
Hey, that's pretty cool! Thanks.

Now I gotta tweak it out for my setup.
azerthoth ·
hmm, I've always (since I found it) preferred fbrun. I usually have it mapped to 'winkey c'.
techiem2 ·
I was using fbrun, it's nice for a plain runner.

I like the tab completion and program assignments in gmrun.

Hooray for choice! :)

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