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08-25-2003, 04:36 AM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Germany
Distribution: Frugalware (everywhere), Ubuntu (notebook only), Tomato (router)
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Shell typing possibility in taskbar?
Hi there,
I'm new to Linux, installed Slackware 9.0 and some very useful additional software and found myself comfortable right now.
I switched to Linux from Win2k and was using the Adress line in the taskbar very extensively because I like to control my PC via keyboard and it gave me very quick access to a lot of things. Is it possible to put such a shell command line into the taskbar? (note: I know about Alt+F2, just asking if it's possible) Thank you for helping!
Greetings,
Seppel
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08-25-2003, 05:23 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: Gentoo x86_64; FreeBSD; OS X
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thats a good question. I have never personally heard of such a thing, but it sounds easy enough to do in theory. Usually if I want to run a quick command without opening a terminal I just left click and use ¨run command¨
I would also be interested in knowing if there is some sort of applet that is a command line..
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08-25-2003, 05:30 AM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: .bh
Distribution: Gentoo
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you mean other than the ones that come with Gnome and KDE ?
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08-25-2003, 05:36 AM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Germany
Distribution: Frugalware (everywhere), Ubuntu (notebook only), Tomato (router)
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Sorry - I forgot to add that I'm using KDE 3.1... :-)
jalal: Which one do you mean at KDE? The Alt+F2 option? I'm searching for a plugin to the KDE taskbar which contains a field to type in something that does the same as if I was typing it into the shell... got it? :-)
Seppel
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08-25-2003, 05:50 AM
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see if this is what you are looking for,
right click on the panel (or the K button) -> add -> applet -> application launcher
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08-25-2003, 06:20 AM
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Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Lancaster, England
Distribution: Debian Etch, OS X 10.4
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the icewm taskbar comes with a run box on the task bar, i dont have the gimp installed so i cant take a screen shot but ive found one here notice the small white box in the taskbar, you can type commands in their and they get executed. icewm is a big step down from kde though.
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08-25-2003, 09:58 AM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Germany
Distribution: Frugalware (everywhere), Ubuntu (notebook only), Tomato (router)
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Thanks Jalal,
that's it :-)
Does anybody know how to change the font size in the application launcher? I set the taskbar size to "small" and now the letters in the app launcher aren't shown completely; they're cutted off at the bottom.
THanks alot!
Seppel
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